Diffusive Molecular Dynamics

Ju Li, William T. Cox,

Thomas J. Lenosky, Ning Ma, Yunzhi Wang

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Traditional Molecular Dynamics

• Numerically integrate Newton’s equation of motion with 3N degrees of freedom, the atomic positions:

• Difficult to reach diffusive time scales due to timestep (~ ps/100) required to resolve atomic vibrations.

, 1..i i Nx

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Diffusive MD: Basic Idea

Ferris wheel seen with long camera exposure time

Variational Gaussian Method

Lesar, Najafabadi, Srolovitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63 (1989) 624.

, , 1..i i i N x

DMD

ci: occupation probability(vacancy, solutes)

Define i for each atomic site,to drive diffusion

, , , 1..i i i i N x c

Phase-Field Crystal: Elder, Grant, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 245701

Phys. Rev. E 70 (2004) 051605 Phys. Rev. B 75 (2007) 064107

change of basis: planewave → Gaussian

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0 0 0

3 23 2 2 2

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Gibbs-Bogoliubov Free Energy Bound:

1exp exp | |

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(| |, , )

Nji

i i i j j j i j i ji i j

i j i j

F F U U

u d d

w

x x x x x x x x

x x

2

1

3 2ln thermal wavelength

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Ni T

B Ti B

k Te mk T

Variational Gaussian Method

{xi,i}true free energy

VG free energy

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Comparison with Exact Solution

Lesar, Najafabadi, Srolovitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63 (1989) 624.

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DMD thermodynamics

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1 1

1 3(| |, , ) ln ln 1 ln 1

2 2

N Ni

i j i j i j B i i i i ii i j i

F c c w k T c c c c ce

x x

Add occupation order parameters to sites: , , , 1..i i i i N x c

VG view DMD view

0

1

c

1

0

c

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2

1 1

The chemical potential for each atomic site is easily derived:

1 3(| |, , ) ln ln

2 2 1

N Ni i

i j i j i j Bi i j ii i

A cc w k T

c e c

x x

DMD kinetics

nearest-neighbor network

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1 , if and are nearest neighbors2

0 otherwise

Ni

ij j ij

i j

ij

ck

t

c ck i j

k

2B 0

calibrate against experimental diffusivity:

Dk

k T a Z

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log(D)

Atomic Environment-Dependent Diffusivity

Atomic coordination

number

12(perfect crystal)

9(surface)

10,11(dislocation core)

experimental or first-principles

diffusivities

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Particleon surface

(largeparticle)

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Particleon surface

(smallparticle)

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Sinteringby hot

isostatic pressing

(porosityreduction in nanoparticlessuperlattice)

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Sinteringby Hot

Isostatic Pressing

(randompowders)

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Nanoindentation

(only atomswith coordination

number ≠ 12are shown)

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Small Contact Radius, High Temperature

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Indenter accommodation by purely diffusional creep

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coordination number coloring, showing edge dislocation

Dislocation Climb

vacancy occupation > 0.1

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• DMD is atomistic realization of regular solution model, with gradient thermo, long-range elastic interaction, and short-range coordination interactions all included.

• DMD kinetics is “solving Cahn-Hilliard equation on a moving atom grid”, with atomic spatial resolution, but at diffusive timescales.

• The “quasi-continuum” version of DMD can be coupled to well-established diffusion - microelasticity equation solvers such as finite element method.

• No need to pre-build event catalog. Could be competitive against kinetic Monte Carlo.

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Quasicontinuum - DMD?

image taken from Knap and Ortiz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 226102.

DMDregion?

continuum diffusion

equation solver region,

with adaptive meshing?

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Stress-Induced Bain Transformation

FCC

BCC

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