Simulation of Dislocation Dynamics in the Continuum Limit

1998 ◽  
Vol 538 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Slip System ◽  
Strong Interaction ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Dislocation Dynamics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Burgers Vector ◽  
Strained Layer ◽  
The Continuum

AbstractPeach-Koehler theory is implemented to simulate the motion of three-dimensionally interacting dislocations, located on various glide planes and having any allowed Burgers vector. The self-interaction is regularized by a modified Brown procedure, which remains stable and loses accuracy in a well-controlled manner as atomic dimensions are approached. The method is illustrated by applying it to several problems involving interacting dislocations in an fcc slip system. The strong interaction of two dislocations on intersecting glide planes is investigated with a view towards developing a set of rules to describe the outcome of such interactions. The effect of Frank-Read sources in relaxing a strained layer are illustrated, both for sources on parallel and on intersecting glide planes.

scholarly journals DECONSTRUCTION AND OTHER APPROACHES TO SUPERSYMMETRIC LATTICE FIELD THEORIES

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 3039-3093 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOEL GIEDT
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Space ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
The Self ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Phase Problem ◽  
Complex Phase ◽  
Lattice Field ◽  
The Continuum ◽  
Fermion Action

This paper contains both a review of recent approaches to supersymmetric lattice field theories and some new results on the deconstruction approach. The essential reason for the complex phase problem of the fermion determinant is shown to be derivative interactions that are not present in the continuum. These irrelevant operators violate the self-conjugacy of the fermion action that is present in the continuum. It is explained why this complex phase problem does not disappear in the continuum limit. The fermion determinant suppression of various branches of the classical moduli space is explored, and found to be supportive of previous claims regarding the continuum limit.

Instability and Collapse in Discrete Wave Equations

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
A. Carpio ◽  
G. Duro
Keyword(s):  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Initial States ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Continuum

AbstractUnstable growth phenomena in spatially discrete wave equations are studied. We characterize sets of initial states leading to instability and collapse and obtain analytical predictions for the blow-up time. The theoretical predictions are con- trasted with the numerical solutions computed by a variety of schemes. The behavior of the systems in the continuum limit and the impact of discreteness and friction are discussed.

scholarly journals On the three-dimensional spatial correlations of curved dislocation systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Pierre Anderson ◽  
Anter El-Azab
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Slip System ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Coarse Graining ◽  
Dislocation Dynamics ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Spatial Correlation Function ◽  
Line System ◽  
Dislocation Densities

AbstractCoarse-grained descriptions of dislocation motion in crystalline metals inherently represent a loss of information regarding dislocation-dislocation interactions. In the present work, we consider a coarse-graining framework capable of re-capturing these interactions by means of the dislocation-dislocation correlation functions. The framework depends on a convolution length to define slip-system-specific dislocation densities. Following a statistical definition of this coarse-graining process, we define a spatial correlation function which will allow the arrangement of the discrete line system at two points—and thus the strength of their interactions at short range—to be recaptured into a mean field description of dislocation dynamics. Through a statistical homogeneity argument, we present a method of evaluating this correlation function from discrete dislocation dynamics simulations. Finally, results of this evaluation are shown in the form of the correlation of dislocation densities on the same slip-system. These correlation functions are seen to depend weakly on plastic strain, and in turn, the dislocation density, but are seen to depend strongly on the convolution length. Implications of these correlation functions in regard to continuum dislocation dynamics as well as future directions of investigation are also discussed.

Coupled dynamics of populations supported by discrete sites and their continuum limit

2010 ◽  
Vol 466 (2121) ◽  
pp. 2561-2586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy R. Field ◽  
Robert J. A. Tough
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Equation ◽  
Closed Form ◽  
Generating Function ◽  
Rate Equation ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Infinite Chain ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Continuum ◽  
Birth Death

The illumination of single population behaviour subject to the processes of birth, death and immigration has provided a basis for the discussion of the non-Gaussian statistical and temporal correlation properties of scattered radiation. As a first step towards the modelling of its spatial correlations, we consider the populations supported by an infinite chain of discrete sites, each subject to birth, death and immigration and coupled by migration between adjacent sites. To provide some motivation, and illustrate the techniques we will use, the migration process for a single particle on an infinite chain of sites is introduced and its diffusion dynamics derived. A certain continuum limit is identified and its properties studied via asymptotic analysis. This forms the basis of the multi-particle model of a coupled population subject to single site birth, death and immigration processes, in addition to inter-site migration. A discrete rate equation is formulated and its generating function dynamics derived. This facilitates derivation of the equations of motion for the first- and second-order cumulants, thus generalizing the earlier results of Bailey through the incorporation of immigration at each site. We present a novel matrix formalism operating in the time domain that enables solution of these equations yielding the mean occupancy and inter-site variances in the closed form. The results for the first two moments at a single time are used to derive expressions for the asymptotic time-delayed correlation functions, which relates to Glauber’s analysis of an Ising model. The paper concludes with an analysis of the continuum limit of the birth–death–immigration–migration process in terms of a path integral formalism. The continuum rate equation and evolution equation for the generating function are developed, from which the evolution equation of the mean occupancy is derived, in this limit. Its solution is provided in closed form.

scholarly journals Effective Action and Measure in Matrix Model of IIB Superstrings

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (31) ◽  
pp. 2331-2340 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Chekhov ◽  
K. Zarembo
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Model ◽  
Effective Action ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Auxiliary Field ◽  
Large N ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Reparametrization Invariance ◽  
The Continuum ◽  
Induced Measure

We calculate an effective action and measure induced by the integration over the auxiliary field in the matrix model recently proposed to describe IIB superstrings. It is shown that the measure of integration over the auxiliary matrix is uniquely determined by locality and reparametrization invariance of the resulting effective action. The large-N limit of the induced measure for string coordinates is discussed in detail. It is found to be ultralocal and, thus, is possibly irrelevant in the continuum limit. The model of the GKM type is considered in relation to the effective action problem.

scholarly journals BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN THE DIRAC APPROACH TO GRAPHENE DEVICES

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 240-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.G. BENEVENTANO ◽  
E.M. SANTANGELO
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Zeta Function ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Casimir Energy ◽  
Local Boundary ◽  
Graphene Devices ◽  
The Continuum

We study a family of local boundary conditions for the Dirac problem corresponding to the continuum limit of graphene, both for nanoribbons and nanodots. We show that, among the members of such family, MIT bag boundary conditions are the ones which are in closest agreement with available experiments. For nanotubes of arbitrary chirality satisfying these last boundary conditions, we evaluate the Casimir energy via zeta function regularization, in such a way that the limit of nanoribbons is clearly determined.

High-resolution spectroscopy near the continuum limit: the microwave spectrum of trans-3-bromo-1,1,1,2,2-pentafluoropropane

2018 ◽  
Vol 117 (9-12) ◽  
pp. 1351-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank E. Marshall ◽  
Nicole Moon ◽  
Thomas D. Persinger ◽  
David J. Gillcrist ◽  
Nelson E. Shreve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Microwave Spectrum ◽  
High Resolution Spectroscopy ◽  
The Continuum

scholarly journals Continuum limit of the vibrational properties of amorphous solids

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (46) ◽  
pp. E9767-E9774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideyuki Mizuno ◽  
Hayato Shiba ◽  
Atsushi Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Continuum Limit ◽  
Scaling Law ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Amorphous Solids ◽  
Mode Analysis ◽  
Vibrational Modes ◽  
Phonon Modes ◽  
The Continuum

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counterintuitive because all solid materials are expected to behave as a homogeneous elastic body in the continuum limit, in which vibrational modes are phonons that follow the Debye law. A number of phenomenological explanations for this situation have been proposed, which assume elastic heterogeneities, soft localized vibrations, and so on. Microscopic mean-field theories have recently been developed to predict the universal non-Debye scaling law. Considering these theoretical arguments, it is absolutely necessary to directly observe the nature of the low-frequency vibrations of amorphous solids and determine the laws that such vibrations obey. Herein, we perform an extremely large-scale vibrational mode analysis of a model amorphous solid. We find that the scaling law predicted by the mean-field theory is violated at low frequency, and in the continuum limit, the vibrational modes converge to a mixture of phonon modes that follow the Debye law and soft localized modes that follow another universal non-Debye scaling law.

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