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We present a phase-field crystal (PFC) model for solidification that accounts for thermal transport and a temperature-dependent lattice parameter. Elasticity effects are characterized through the continuous elastic field computed from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-26 Maik Punke , Steven M. Wise , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

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

We address a three-dimensional, coarse-grained description of dislocation networks at grain boundaries between rotated crystals. The so-called amplitude expansion of the phase-field crystal model is exploited with the aid of finite element…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-31 Marco Salvalaglio , Rainer Backofen , K. R. Elder , Axel Voigt

Phase field crystal (PFC) models constitute a field theoretical approach to solidification, melting and related phenomena at atomic length and diffusive time scales. One of the advantages of these models is that they naturally contain…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 V. Heinonen , C. V. Achim , K. R. Elder , S. Buyukdagli , T. Ala-Nissila

We derive the amplitude expansion for a phase-field-crystal (APFC) model that captures the basic physics of magneto-structural interactions. The symmetry breaking due to magnetization is demonstrated, and the characterization of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-02 Rainer Backofen , Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt

We introduce a dislocation density tensor and derive its kinematic evolution law from a phase field description of crystal deformations in three dimensions. The phase field crystal (PFC) model is used to define the lattice distortion,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Vidar Skogvoll , Luiza Angheluta , Audun Skaugen , Marco Salvalaglio , Jorge Viñals

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

Atomically thin 2-dimensional heterostructures are a promising, novel class of materials with groundbreaking properties. The possiblity of choosing the many constituent components and their proportions allows optimizing these materials to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Petri Hirvonen , Vili Heinonen , Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Ken R. Elder , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Interface energy and kinetic coefficient of crystal growth strongly depend on the face of the crystalline lattice. To investigate the kinetic anisotropy and velocity of different crystallographic faces we use the hyperbolic (modified) phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-03 Vladimir Ankudinov , Peter K. Galenko

The dynamics of phase field crystal (PFC) modeling is derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), for both single-component and binary systems. The derivation is based on a truncation up to the three-point direct correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Feng Huang , K. R. Elder , Nikolas Provatas

Lattice defects in crystalline materials create long-range elastic fields which can be modelled on the atomistic scale using an infinite system of discrete nonlinear force balance equations. Starting with these equations, this work…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Julian Braun , Thomas Hudson , Christoph Ortner

The phase field crystal (PFC) method has emerged as a promising technique for modeling materials with atomistic resolution on mesoscopic time scales. The approach is numerically much more efficient than classical density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Michael Greenwood , Nikolas Provatas , Jörg Rottler

Phase field crystals (PFC) are a tool for simulating materials at the atomic level. They combine the small length-scale resolution of molecular dynamics (MD) with the ability to simulate dynamics on mesoscopic time scales. We show how PFC…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. F. Tupper , Martin Grant

This work addresses differences in predicted elastic fields created by dislocations either by the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model, or by static Field Dislocation Mechanics (FDM). The PFC order parameter describes the topological content of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-16 Manas Vijay Upadhyay , Jorge Viñals

A phase field model of a crystalline material at the mesoscale is introduced to develop the necessary theoretical framework to study plastic flow due to dislocation motion. We first obtain the elastic stress from the phase field free energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-07 Audun Skaugen , Luiza Angheluta , Jorge Viñals

We introduce a Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model for particles with n-fold rotational symmetry in two dimensions. Our approach is based on a free energy functional that depends on the reduced one-particle density, the strength of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-02 Robert F. B. Weigel , Michael Schmiedeberg

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

By using a phase-field crystal (PFC) model, the liquid-crystal growth of the plastic triangular phase is simulated with emphasis on crystal shape and topological defect formation. The equilibrium shape of a plastic triangular crystal (PTC)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Sai Tang , Simon Praetorius , Rainer Backofen , Axel Voigt , Yan-Mei Yu , Jincheng Wang

The phase-field crystal model in its amplitude equation approximation is shown to provide an accurate description of the deformation field in defected crystalline structures, as well as of dislocation motion. We analyze in detail the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-01 Marco Salvalaglio , Luiza Angheluta , Zhi-Feng Huang , Axel Voigt , Ken R. Elder , Jorge Viñals

We describe a general method to model multicomponent ordered crystals using the phase-field crystal (PFC) formalism. As a test case, a generic B2 compound is investigated. We are able to produce a line of either first-order or second-order…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Eli Alster , K. R. Elder , Jeffrey J. Hoyt , Peter W. Voorhees