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The phase field crystal model allows the study of materials on atomic length and diffusive time scales. It accounts for elastic and plastic deformation in crystal lattices, including several processes such as growth, dislocation dynamics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-07 Marcello De Donno , Marco Salvalaglio

The phase-field-crystal (PFC) modeling paradigm is rapidly emerging as the model of choice when investigating materials phenomena with atomistic scale effects over diffusive time scales. Recent variants of the PFC model, so-called…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Nana Ofori-Opoku , Jonathan Stolle , Zhi-Feng Huang , 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

We present and discuss the development of an unconditionally stable algorithm used to solve the evolution equations of the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) model. This algorithm allows for an arbitrarily large algorithmic time step. As the basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mowei Cheng , James A. Warren

Highly anisotropic interfaces play an important role in the development of material microstructure. Using the diffusive atomistic phase-field crystal (PFC) formalism, we determine the capability of the model to quantitatively describe these…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Nana Ofori-Opoku , James A. Warren , Peter W. Voorhees

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 a mesoscale description of deformations and defects in thin, flexible sheets with crystalline order, tackling the interplay between in-plane elasticity, out-of-plane deformation, as well as dislocation nucleation and motion. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Lucas Benoit--Maréchal , Ingo Nitschke , Axel Voigt , Marco Salvalaglio

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

In this research, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are combined with mesoscopic phase-field computational methods in order to investigate phase-transformation in polycrystalline Aluminum microstructure. In fact, microstructural…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-03 Mehrdad Yousefi

In a recent class of phase field crystal (PFC) models, the density order parameter is coupled to powers of its mean field. This effectively introduces a phenomenology of higher-order direct correlation functions acting on long wavelengths,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Daniel L. Coelho , Duncan Burns , Emily Wilson , Nikolas Provatas

Advanced phase-field techniques have been applied to address various aspects of polycrystalline solidification including different modes of crystal nucleation. The height of the nucleation barrier has been determined by solving the…

During phase transitions certain properties of a material change, such as composition field and lattice-symmetry distortions. These changes are typically coupled, and affect the microstructures that form in materials. Here, we propose a 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-25 Ananya Renuka Balakrishna , W. Craig Carter

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

The anisotropic phase-field crystal model recently proposed and used by Prieler et al. [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 464110 (2009)] is derived from microscopic density functional theory for anisotropic particles with fixed orientation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Muhammad Ajmal Choudhary , Daming Li , Heike Emmerich , Hartmut Löwen

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

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

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

The amplitude expansion for a magnetic phase-field-crystal (magnetic APFC) model enables a convenient coarse-grained description of crystalline structures under the influence of magnetic fields. Considering higher-order magnetic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-01 Rainer Backofen , Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt

A new isotropic magneto-elastic phase field crystal (PFC) model to study the relation between morphological structure and magnetic properties of pure ferromagnetic solids is introduced. Analytic calculations were used to determine the phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Niloufar Faghihi , Nikolas Provatas , K. R. Elder , Martin Grant , Mikko Karttunen

The rotationally-covariant renormalization group equations of motion for the density wave amplitudes in the phase field crystal model are shown to follow from a dynamical equation driven by an effective free energy density that we derive.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-23 Pak Yuen Chan , Nigel Goldenfeld