Exploring critical points of energy landscapes: from low-dimensional examples to phase field crystal PDEs

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2020.105679MaRDI QIDQ2656033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 10 March 2021

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07878

zbMATH Keywords

continuous time Nesterov methoddeflationphase field crystal equationsoft matter crystallizationsquared operator method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Crystalline structure (74E15) Phase transformations in solids (74N99) Numerical and other methods in solid mechanics (74S99) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: In the present work we explore the application of a few root-finding methods to a series of prototypical examples. The methods we consider include: (a) the so-called continuous-time Nesterov (CTN) flow method; (b) a variant thereof referred to as the squared-operator method (SOM); and (c) the the joint action of each of the above two methods with the so-called deflation method. More traditional methods such as Newton's method (and its variant with deflation) are also brought to bear. Our toy examples start with a naive one degree-of-freedom (dof) system to provide the lay of the land. Subsequently, we turn to a 2-dof system that is motivated by the reduction of an infinite-dimensional, phase field crystal (PFC) model of soft matter crystallisation. Once the landscape of the 2-dof system has been elucidated, we turn to the full PDE model and illustrate how the insights of the low-dimensional examples lead to novel solutions at the PDE level that are of relevance and interest to the full framework of soft matter crystallization.

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