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We use the phase field crystal model to study nucleation of edge dislocations in two dimensions under an applied stress field. A dislocation dipole nucleates under the applied stress, consistent with Burgers vector conservation. The phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-20 Vidar Skogvoll , Audun Skaugen , Luiza Angheluta , Jorge Viñals

In this paper a geometric field theory of dislocation dynamics and finite plasticity in single crystals is formulated. Starting from the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into elastic and plastic parts, we use…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 Fabio Sozio , Arash Yavari

Crystalline defects critically influence material properties, necessitating accurate simulation methods. Existing approaches, from atomic-scale configurations to continuum elasticity, face inherent limitations in modeling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Xinyi Wei , Yangshuai Wang , Kai Jiang , Lei Zhang

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

Rapid solidification leads to unique microstructural features, where a less studied topic is the formation of various crystalline defects, including high dislocation densities, as well as gradients and splitting of the crystalline…

Effects of three-point direct correlation on properties of the phase field crystal (PFC) modeling are examined, for the control of various ordered and disordered phases and their coexistence in both three-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-15 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Wenhui Duan , Zhi-Feng Huang

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

Continuum dislocation dynamics models of mesoscale plasticity consist of dislocation transport-reaction equations coupled with crystal mechanics equations. The coupling between these two sets of equations is such that dislocation transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Peng Lin , Vignesh Vivekanandan , Kyle Starkey , Benjamin Anglin , Clint Geller , Anter El-Azab

We discuss an active phase field crystal (PFC) model that describes a mixture of active and passive particles. First, a microscopic derivation from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) is presented that includes a systematic treatment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-26 Michael te Vrugt , Max Philipp Holl , Aron Koch , Raphael Wittkowski , Uwe Thiele

We develop and demonstrate the first general computational tool for finite deformation static and dynamic dislocation mechanics. A finite element formulation of finite deformation (Mesoscale) Field Dislocation Mechanics theory is presented.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-24 Rajat Arora , Xiaohan Zhang , Amit Acharya

In this work, we present a 3D Phase Field Dislocation Dynamics (PFDD) model for body-centered cubic (BCC) metals. The model formulation is extended to account for the dependence of the Peierls barrier on the line-character of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-24 Xiaoyao Peng , Nithin Mathew , Irene J. Beyerlein , Kaushik Dayal , Abigail Hunter

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

Phase field crystal (PFC) theory, extensively used for modelling the structure of solids, can be derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) via a sequence of approximations. Standard derivations neglect a term of form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-04 Andrew J. Archer , Daniel J. Ratliff , Alastair M. Rucklidge , Priya Subramanian

The phase field crystal (PFC) model captures the elastic and topological properties of crystals with a single scalar field at small undercooling. At large undercooling, new foam-like behavior emerges. We characterize this foam phase of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

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 report on a novel extension of the recent phase-field crystal (PFC) method introduced in [Elder et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 88, 245701:1-4 (2002)], which incorporates elastic interactions as well as crystal plasticity and diffusive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Stefanovic , Mikko Haataja , Nikolas Provatas

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

Plasticity modelling has long been based on phenomenological models based on ad-hoc assuption of constitutive relations, which are then fitted to limited data. Other work is based on the consideration of physical mechanisms which seek to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Stefan Hiemer , Haidong Fan , Michael Zaiser

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

To develop a dislocation-based statistical continuum theory of crystal plasticity is a major challenge of materials science.During the last two decades such a theory has been developed for the time evolution of a system of parallel edge…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-12 István Groma , Péter Dusán Ispánovity , Thomas Hochrainer