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Continuous neural field models with inhomogeneous synaptic connectivities are known to support traveling fronts as well as stable bumps of localized activity. We analyze stationary localized structures in a neural field model with periodic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-03-29 Daniele Avitabile , Helmut Schmidt

Using the recently developed theory of rigorously validated numerics, we address the Phase-Field-Crystal (PFC) model at the microscopic (atomistic) level. We show the existence of critical points and local minimizers associated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Gabriel Martine-La Boissoniere , Rustum Choksi , Jean-Philippe Lessard

We develop a fully continuous model for colloidal suspensions with hydrodynamic interactions. The Navier Stokes Phase Field Crystal (NS-PFC) model combines ideas of dynamic density functional theory with particulate flow approaches and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-27 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

The coincidence of a pitchfork and Hopf bifurcation at a Takens-Bogdanov (TB) bifurcation occurs in many physical systems such as double-diffusive convection, binary convection and magnetoconvection. Analysis of the associated normal form,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-14 Haifaa Alrihieli , Alastair Rucklidge , Priya Subramanian

We derive a phase field crystal model that couples the diffusive evolution of a microscopic structure with the fast dynamics of a macroscopic velocity field, explicitly accounting for the relaxation of elastic excitations. This model…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Vidar Skogvoll , Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta

This paper introduces a new structural phase field crystal (PFC) type model that expands the PFC methodology to a wider class of structurally complex crystal structures than previously possible. Specifically, our new approach allows for…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-03 Matthew Seymour , Nikolas Provatas

We present thermodynamic relationships between the free energy of the phase-field crystal (PFC) model and thermodynamic state variables for bulk phases under hydrostatic pressure. This relationship is derived based on the thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-09 Victor W. L. Chan , Nirand Pisutha-Arnond , Katsuyo Thornton

The FitzHugh-Nagumo model, originally introduced to study neural dynamics, has since found applications across diverse fields, including cardiology and biology. However, the formation and bifurcation structure of spatially localized states…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-20 Pedro Parra-Rivas , Fahad Al Saadi , Lendert Gelens

We study the nonlinear driven response and sliding friction behavior of the phase-field-crystal (PFC) model with pinning including both thermal fluctuations and inertial effects. The model provides a continuous description of adsorbed…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-08 J. A. P. Ramos , E. Granato , S. C. Ying , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

To facilitate the analysis of pattern formation and of the related phase transitions in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) we present an explicit approximate mapping from the nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii equation with cubic nonlinearity to a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-11 Alina B. Steinberg , Fabian Maucher , Svetlana V. Gurevich , Uwe Thiele

An investigation is undertaken of coupled reaction-diffusion systems in one spatial dimension that are able to support, in different regions of their parameter space, either an isolated spike solution, or stable localized patterns with an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-02-05 Nicolas Verschueren , Alan Champneys

We apply a simple dynamical density functional theory, the phase-field crystal (PFC) model of overdamped conservative dynamics, to address polymorphism, crystal nucleation, and crystal growth in the diffusion-controlled limit. We refine the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Gyula I. Tóth , György Tegze , Tamás Pusztai , László Gránásy

The formation of self-organized patterns and localized states are ubiquitous in Nature. Localized states containing trivial symmetries such as stripes, hexagons, or squares have been profusely studied. Disordered patterns with non-trivial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-02-09 Marcel G. Clerc , Sebastián Echeverría-Alar , Mustapha Tlidi

We study numerically the cubic-quintic-septic Swift-Hohenberg (SH357) equation on bounded one-dimensional domains. Under appropriate conditions stripes with wave number $k\approx 1$ bifurcate supercritically from the zero state and form…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-17 Edgar Knobloch , Hannes Uecker , Daniel Wetzel

Phase field crystal (PFC) models constitute central tools for a microscopic understanding of the dynamics of complex systems in soft matter physics. They have found widespread application in the modeling of the uniaxial orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 Anouar El Moumane , René Wittmann , Hartmut Löwen , Michael te Vrugt

We study localised activity patterns in neural field equations posed on the Euclidean plane; such models are commonly used to describe the coarse-grained activity of large ensembles of cortical neurons in a spatially continuous way. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-03-29 James Rankin , Daniele Avitabile , Javier Baladron , Gregory Faye , David J. B. Lloyd

A nonlocal phase-field crystal (NPFC) model is presented as a nonlocal counterpart of the local phase-field crystal (LPFC) model and a special case of the structural PFC (XPFC) derived from classical field theory for crystal growth and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Qiang Du , Kai Wang , Jiang Yang

Dendritic growth, and the formation of material microstructure in general, necessarily involves a wide range of length scales from the atomic up to sample dimensions. The phase field approach of Langer, enhanced by optimal asymptotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Nigel Goldenfeld , Badrinarayan P. Athreya , Jonathan A. Dantzig

A one dimensional stochastic exclusion process with two species of particles, $+$ and $-$, is studied where density of each species can fluctuate but the total particle density is conserved. From the exact stationary state weights we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 Urna Basu

Based on static and dynamical density functional theory, a phase-field-crystal model is derived which involves both the translational density and the orientational degree of ordering as well as a local director field. The model exhibits…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Hartmut Löwen