Automated atomistic simulations of dissociated dislocations with ab initio accuracy
arXiv:2311.01830 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.094120
Abstract
In (M Hodapp and A Shapeev 2020 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1 045005), we have proposed an algorithm that fully automatically trains machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) during large-scale simulations, and successfully applied it to simulate screw dislocation motion in body-centered cubic tungsten. The algorithm identifies local subregions of the large-scale simulation region where the potential extrapolates, and then constructs periodic configurations of 100--200 atoms out of these non-periodic subregions that can be efficiently computed with plane-wave Density Functional Theory (DFT) codes. In this work, we extend this algorithm to dissociated dislocations with arbitrary character angles and apply it to partial dislocations in face-centered cubic aluminum. Given the excellent agreement with available DFT reference results, we argue that our algorithm has the potential to become a universal way of simulating dissociated dislocations in face-centered cubic and possibly also other materials, such as hexagonal closed-packed magnesium, and their alloys. Moreover, it can be used to construct reliable training sets for MLIPs to be used in large-scale simulations of curved dislocations.
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