Transition pathways in cylinder-gyroid interface

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2022-0038MaRDI QIDQ5042015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiaomei Yao, Jie Xu, Lei Zhang

Publication date 18 October 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12285

zbMATH Keywords

transition stateLandau-Brazovskii modeltransition pathwaysaddle dynamicscylinder-gyroid interface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Optimality conditions for minimax problems (49K35) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Numerical problems in dynamical systems (65P99) Dynamical systems in numerical analysis (37N30)

Abstract: When two distinct ordered phases contact, the interface may exhibit rich and fascinating structures. Focusing on the Cylinder-Gyroid interface system, transition pathways connecting various interface morphologies are studied armed with the Landau--Brazovskii model. Specifically, minimum energy paths are obtained by computing transition states with the saddle dynamics. We present four primary transition pathways connecting different local minima, representing four different mechanisms of the formation of the Cylinder-Gyroid interface. The connection of Cylinder and Gyroid can be either direct or indirect via Fddd with three different orientations. Under different displacements, each of the four pathways may have the lowest energy.

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