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Dislocation nucleation in the phase field crystal model
Vidar Skogvoll, Audun Skaugen, Luiza Angheluta +1
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 stre…
Model of the dynamics of an interface between a smectic phase and an isotropic phase of different density
Eduardo Vitral, Perry H. Leo, Jorge Viñals
Soft modulated phases have been shown to undergo complex morphological transitions, in which layer remodeling induced by mean and Gaussian curvatures plays a major role. This is th…
Anisotropic disclination cores in nematic liquid crystals modelled by a self consistent molecular field theory
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
Disclination configurations of a nematic liquid crystal are studied within a self-consistent molecular field theory. The theory is based on a tensor order parameter, and can accomm…
Spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Asymptotic and numerical studies of azimuthal flows induced by rotating spirals
Eduardo Vitral, Saikat Mukherjee, Perry H. Leo +3
Rotating spiral patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection are known to induce azimuthal flows, which raises the question of how different neighboring spirals interact with each other…
Field Dislocation Mechanics and Phase Field Crystal models
Amit Acharya, Jorge Viñals
A new formulation of the Phase Field Crystal model is presented that is consistent with the necessary microscopic independence between the phase field, reflecting the broken symmet…
Computational molecular field theory for nematic liquid crystals
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
Nematic liquid crystals exhibit configurations in which the underlying ordering changes markedly on macroscopic length scales. Such structures include topological defects in the ne…