Computing optimal interfacial structure of modulated phases

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2016-0020MaRDI QIDQ5372587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jie Xu, Chu Wang, An-Chang Shi, Pingwen Zhang

Publication date 27 October 2017

Published in Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05985

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

Abstract: We propose a general framework of computing interfacial structures between two modulated phases. Specifically we propose to use a computational box consisting of two half spaces, each occupied by a modulated phase with given position and orientation. The boundary conditions and basis functions are chosen to be commensurate with the bulk structures. It is observed that the ordered nature of modulated structures stabilizes the interface, which enables us to obtain optimal interfacial structures by searching local minima of the free energy landscape. The framework is applied to the Landau-Brazovskii model to investigate interfaces between modulated phases with different relative positions and orientations. Several types of novel complex interfacial structures are obtained from the calculations.

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