NANAOct 14, 2018

Geometry Equilibration of Crystalline Defects in Quantum and Atomistic Descriptions

arXiv:1709.0277024 citations
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Provides a theoretical foundation for modeling defect equilibration in materials science, relevant for atomistic and quantum simulations.

Developed a rigorous framework for geometry equilibration of crystalline defects, establishing sharp far-field decay estimates for equilibrium configurations, extending prior work to infinite-range interactions including quantum chemistry potentials.

We develop a rigorous framework for modelling the geometry equilibration of crystalline defects. We formulate the equilibration of crystal defects as a variational problems on a discrete energy space and establish qualitatively sharp far-field decay estimates for the equilibrium configuration. This work extends Ehrlacher, Ortner, Shapeev (2016) by admitting infinite-range interaction which in particular includes some quantum chemistry based interatomic potentials.

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