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2023-06-08
Athermal quasistatic cavitation in amorphous solids: effect of random pinning
Amorphous solids are known to fail catastrophically via fracture, wherein cavitation at nano-metric scales is known to play a significant role. Micro-alloying via inclusions is often used as a means to increase the fracture toughness of amorphous solids. Modeling such inclusions as randomly pinned particles that move o...
2306.05348v1
2023-06-12
Significant improvement of the lower critical field in Y doped Nb: potential replacement of basic material for the radio-frequency superconducting cavity
The research of high energy and nuclear physics requires high power accelerators, and the superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity is regarded as their engine. Up to now, the widely used practical and effective material for making the SRF cavity is pure Nb. The key parameter that governs the efficiency and the acce...
2306.06915v1
2023-06-15
Exploring Magnetism of Lead-free Halide Double Perovskites: A High-Throughput First-Principles Study
We have performed a comprehensive, first-principles high-throughput study of the magnetic properties of halide double perovskites, $Cs_2BB^\prime Cl_6$, with magnetic ions occupying one or both B and B$^\prime$ sites. Our findings indicate a general tendency for these materials to exhibit antiferromagnetic ordering wit...
2306.09300v1
2023-06-16
Wafer-scale fabrication of 2D nanostructures via thermomechanical nanomolding
With shrinking dimensions in integrated circuits, sensors, and functional devices, there is a pressing need to develop nanofabrication techniques with simultaneous control of morphology, microstructure, and material composition over wafer length scales. Current techniques are largely unable to meet all these conditions...
2306.10167v1
2023-06-20
Thermoelectric properties of Topological Weyl Semimetal Cu$_2$ZnGeTe$_4$
The study of topological quantum materials for enhanced thermoelectric energy conversion has received significant attention recently. Topological materials (including topological insulators and Dirac/Weyl/nodal-line semi-metals) with unique nature of band structure involving linear and regular parabolic bands near Ferm...
2306.11656v1
2023-06-28
MoRe Electrodes with 10-nm Nanogaps for Electrical Contact to Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are predicted to exhibit exceptional edge-related properties, such as localized edge states, spin polarization, and half-metallicity. However, the absence of low-resistance nano-scale electrical contacts to the GNRs hinders harnessing their properties in field-effect trans...
2306.16070v1
2023-07-03
Neighbors Map: an Efficient Atomic Descriptor for Structural Analysis
Accurate structural analysis is essential to gain physical knowledge and understanding of atomic-scale processes in materials from atomistic simulations. However, traditional analysis methods often reach their limits when applied to crystalline systems with thermal fluctuations, defect-induced distortions, partial vitr...
2307.00978v3
2023-07-04
Two-Dimensional Band Dispersion of Ultra-Flat Hexagonal Bismuthene Grown on Ag(111) Bulk and Quantum-Well Films
Two-dimensional band dispersion of (2$\times$2) superstructure with Bi grown on Ag(111), which has been urged as an ultraflat hexagonal bismuthene, is investigated using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). The (2$\times$2)-Bi superstructure can be grown on the Ag(111) surface at low temperatures; it tran...
2307.01551v3
2023-07-06
Misfit layer compounds as ultra-tunable field effect transistors: from charge transfer control to emergent superconductivity
Misfit layer compounds are heterostructures composed of rocksalt units stacked with few layers transition metal dichalcogenides. They host Ising superconductivity, charge density waves and good thermoelectricity. The design of misfits emergent properties is, however, hindered by the lack of a global understanding of th...
2307.02886v1
2023-07-10
Reversal of the skyrmion topological deflection across ferrimagnetic angular momentum compensation
Due to their non-trivial topology, skyrmions describe deflected trajectories, which hinders their straight propagation in nanotracks and can lead to their annihilation at the track edges. This deflection is caused by a gyrotropic force proportional to the topological charge and the angular momentum density of the host ...
2307.04669v2
2023-07-05
Reinforcement learning-guided long-timescale simulation of hydrogen transport in metals
Atomic diffusion in solids is an important process in various phenomena. However, atomistic simulations of diffusion processes are confronted with the timescale problem: the accessible simulation time is usually far shorter than that of experimental interests. In this work, we developed a long-timescale method using re...
2307.05394v1
2023-07-12
A thermodynamic band gap model for photoinduced phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites
Provided is a comprehensive description of a band gap thermodynamic model, which predicts and explains key features of photosegregation in lead-based, mixed-halide perovskites. The model provides a prescription for illustrating halide migration driven by photocarrier energies. Where possible, model predictions are comp...
2307.06268v1
2023-07-19
Magneto-transport and electronic structures in MoSi$_2$ bulks and thin films with different orientations
We report a comprehensive study of magneto-transport properties in MoSi$_2$ bulk and thin films. Textured MoSi$_2$ thin films of around 70 nm were deposited on silicon substrates with different orientations. Giant magnetoresistance of 1000% was observed in sintered bulk samples while MoSi$_2$ single crystals exhibit a ...
2307.09802v1
2023-07-21
Thermodynamic calculations using reverse Monte Carlo: Simultaneously tuning multiple short-range order parameters for 2D lattice adsorption problem
Lattice simulations are an important class of problems in crystalline solids, surface science, alloys, adsorption, absorption, separation, catalysis, to name a few. We describe a fast computational method for performing lattice thermodynamic calculations that is based on the use of the reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) techniq...
2307.11703v1
2023-07-24
Conduction band tuning by controlled alloying of Fe into Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite powders
Halide double perovskite semiconductors such as Cs2AgBiBr6 are widely investigated as a more stable, less toxic alternative to lead-halide perovskites in light conversion applications including photovoltaics and photoredox catalysis. However, the relatively large and indirect bandgap of Cs2AgBiBr6 limits efficient sunl...
2307.12747v1
2023-08-09
Tuning the Stability of a Model Quasicrystal and its Approximants with a Periodic Substrate
Quasicrystals and their periodic approximants are complex phases, which have by now been observed in many metallic alloys, soft matter systems, and particle simulations. In recent experiments of thin-film perovskites on solid substrates, the type of complex phase was found to change depending on thermodynamic condition...
2308.04827v2
2023-08-10
Fatigue behavior of Cu-Zr metallic glasses under cyclic loading
The effect of oscillatory shear deformation on the fatigue life, yielding transition, and flow localization in metallic glasses is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We study a well-annealed Cu-Zr amorphous alloy subjected to periodic shear at room temperature. We find that upon loading for hundreds of ...
2308.05674v1
2023-08-16
Extended Ensemble Molecular Dynamics for Thermodynamics of Phases
The first-order phase transitions and related thermodynamics properties are primary concerns of materials sciences and engineering. In traditional atomistic simulations, the phase transitions and the estimation of their thermodynamic properties are challenging tasks because the trajectories get trapped in local minima ...
2308.08098v1
2023-08-19
QCL active region overheat in pulsed mode: effects of non-equilibrium heat dissipation on laser performance
Quantum cascade lasers are of high interest in the scientific community due to unique applications utilizing the emission in mid-IR range. The possible designs of QCL are quite limited and require careful engineering to overcome some crucial disadvantages. One of them is an active region (ARn) overheat, that significan...
2308.10013v1
2023-08-21
Single laser pulse induced magnetization switching in in-plane magnetized GdCo alloys
The discovery of all-optical ultra-fast deterministic magnetization switching has opened up new possibilities for manipulating magnetization in devices using femtosecond laser pulses. Previous studies on single pulse all-optical helicity-independent switching (AO-HIS) have mainly focused on perpendicularly magnetized t...
2308.10516v1
2023-08-24
Mixed phase and Tetracritical Behaviour of Dilute 3D Heisenberg Magnet
The recent breakthrough discovery of twisted bilayer $CrI_3$ system, where both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order coexist and act as a main motivation for simulating simple magnetic systems where this type of mixed-phase arises. Here we have simulated the dilute magnetic alloy with generic type $A_pB_{1-p}$. He...
2308.12611v5
2023-08-24
Electronic Structure Prediction of Multi-million Atom Systems Through Uncertainty Quantification Enabled Transfer Learning
The ground state electron density - obtainable using Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (KS-DFT) simulations - contains a wealth of material information, making its prediction via machine learning (ML) models attractive. However, the computational expense of KS-DFT scales cubically with system size which tends to stym...
2308.13096v2
2023-08-25
Novel nanoindentation strain rate sweep method for continuously investigating the strain rate sensitivity of materials at the nanoscale
We introduce a new nanoindentation method to continuously measure the hardness while sweeping through orders of magnitudes of strain rates within a single experiment. While nanoindentation already allows the determination of the strain rate sensitivity of materials by means of strain rate jump tests, these are typicall...
2308.13403v2
2023-08-26
Radial Variation of Microstructure in a Direct-Chill Cast AA7050 Billet on Homogenization
A "through-process" solidification homogenization numerical model to study the microstructural evolution has been developed for AA7050 alloy. A continuum scale Direct Chill Casting (DCC) solidification model has been coupled with a meso-scale homogenization precipitation model to evaluate the radial variation of micros...
2308.13800v1
2023-08-30
Dislocation breakaway from nanoparticle array linear complexions: Plasticity mechanisms and strength scaling laws
Linear complexions are stable defect states, where the stress field associated with a dislocation induces a local phase transformation that remains restricted to nanoscale dimensions. As these complexions are born at the defects which control plasticity in metals, it is crucial to understand their impact on subsequent ...
2308.15744v2
2023-08-30
Target tests for the ILC positron source Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2023)
The positron source is an essential component of the International Linear Collider (ILC) and is an area that poses some design challenges. One consideration is the material for the target, where the 1014 positrons per second for the ILC are generated. The potential material would need to be able to resist the high load...
2308.15916v1
2023-08-30
High Performance GPU Accelerated MuST Software
The MuST package is a computational software designed for ab initio electronic structure calculations for solids. The Locally Self-consistent Multiple Scattering (LSMS) method implemented in MuST allows to perform the electronic structure calculation for systems with a large number of atoms per unit cell. For the LSMS ...
2308.16317v1
2023-09-06
Atomistic insights into ultrafast SiGe nanoprocessing
Controlling ultrafast material transformations with atomic precision is essential for future nanotechnology. Pulsed laser annealing (LA), inducing extremely rapid and localized phase transitions, is a powerful way to achieve this, but it requires careful optimization together with the appropriate system design. We pres...
2309.02909v1
2023-09-06
Automated Discovery of Wurtzite Solid Solutions with Enhanced Piezoelectric Response
While many piezoelectric materials are known, there is still great potential to improve on the figures of merit of existing materials through compositional doping, forming solid solutions. Specifically, it has been shown that doping and alloying wurtzite-structured materials can improve the piezoelectric response; howe...
2309.03398v1
2023-09-07
An anthropomorphic continuum robotic neck actuated by SMA spring-based multipennate muscle architecture
This work presents a novel Shape Memory Alloy spring actuated continuum robotic neck that derives inspiration from pennate muscle architecture. The proposed design has 2DOF, and experimental studies reveal that the designed joint can replicate the human head's anthropomorphic range of motion. We enumerate the analytica...
2309.03683v1
2023-09-08
Materials Design for Hypersonics
Hypersonic vehicles must withstand extreme conditions during flights that exceed five times the speed of sound. These systems have the potential to facilitate rapid access to space, bolster defense capabilities, and create a new paradigm for transcontinental earth-to-earth travel. However, extreme aerothermal environme...
2309.04053v2
2023-09-08
Bayesian optimization with active learning of Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti system for spin transport properties
Designing materials with enhanced spin charge conversion, i.e., with high spin Hall conductivity (SHC) and low longitudinal electric conductivity (hence large spin Hall angle (SHA)), is a challenging task, especially in the presence of a vast chemical space for compositionally complex alloys (CCAs). In this work, focus...
2309.04168v1
2023-08-07
Modeling of electrochemical oxide film growth -- a PDM refinement
The Point Defect Model (PDM) is known for over 40 years and has brought deeper insight to the understanding of passivity. During the last decades it has seen several changes and refinements, and it has been widely used to analyze growth kinetics of different alloys. Nevertheless, the model has been based on still uncon...
2309.04480v1
2023-09-11
Anisotropic diffusion of radiation-induced self-interstitial clusters in HCP zirconium: a molecular dynamics and rate-theory assessment
Under irradiation, Zr and Zr alloys undergo growth in the absence of applied stress. This phenomenon is thought to be associated with the anisotropy of diffusion of either or both radiation-induced point defects and defect clusters. In this work, molecular dynamic simulations are used to study the anisotropy of diffusi...
2309.05781v1
2023-09-13
Supervised Machine Learning and Physics based Machine Learning approach for prediction of peak temperature distribution in Additive Friction Stir Deposition of Aluminium Alloy
Additive friction stir deposition (AFSD) is a novel solid-state additive manufacturing technique that circumvents issues of porosity, cracking, and properties anisotropy that plague traditional powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition approaches. However, correlations between process parameters, thermal profile...
2309.06838v2
2023-09-26
Extending the scope and understanding of all-optical magnetization switching in Gd-based alloys by controlling the underlying temperature transients
We use the thickness of Cu layers to control all-optical switching of magnetization in adjacent Gd$_{24}$(Fe$_9$0Co$_{10}$)$_{76}$ films. While increasing the Cu thickness from 5 to 900nm has no effect on the switching threshold, it significantly enlarges the fluence and pulse duration at which multiple domains emerge....
2309.14797v1
2023-09-26
Magnetic Bernstein inequalities and spectral inequality on thick sets for the Landau operator
We prove a spectral inequality for the Landau operator. This means that for all $f$ in the spectral subspace corresponding to energies up to $E$, the $L^2$-integral over suitable $S \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ can be lower bounded by an explicit constant times the $L^2$-norm of $f$ itself. We identify the class of all measur...
2309.14902v1
2023-09-28
First Principles Investigation of Polymorphism in Halide Perovskites
Halide perovskites have been extensively studied as materials of interest for optoelectronic applications. There is a major emphasis on ways to tailor the stability, defect behavior, electronic band structure, and optical absorption in halide perovskites, by changing the composition or structure. In this work, we prese...
2309.16095v1
2023-08-03
A New 1-mg Fast Unimorph SMA-Based Actuator for Microrobotics
We present a new unimorph actuator for micro-robotics, which is driven by thin shape-memory alloy (SMA) wires. Using a passive-capillary-alignment technique and existing SMA-microsystem fabrication methods, we developed an actuator that is 7 mm long, has a volume of 0.45 mm^3, weighs 0.96 mg, and can achieve operation ...
2309.16689v1
2023-10-02
Ultrahigh-performance superlattice mid-infrared nBn photodetectors at high operating temperatures
While advancing a physics-based comprehensive photodetector-simulation model, we propose a novel device design of the mid-wavelength infrared nBn photodetectors by exploiting the inherit flexibility of the $InAs_{1-x}Sb_{x}$ ternary alloy material system. To further explicate the physics of such photodetectors, we calc...
2310.00888v1
2023-10-02
Predicting emergence of crystals from amorphous matter with deep learning
Crystallization of the amorphous phases into metastable crystals plays a fundamental role in the formation of new matter, from geological to biological processes in nature to synthesis and development of new materials in the laboratory. Predicting the outcome of such phase transitions reliably would enable new research...
2310.01117v1
2023-10-03
Wrapping and unwrapping multifractal fields
We develop a powerful yet simple method that generates multifractal fields with fully controlled scaling properties. Adopting the Multifractal Random Walk (MRW) model of Bacry et al. (2001), synthetic multifractal fields are obtained from the fractional integration of non-Gaussian fluctuations, built by a non-linear tr...
2310.01927v2
2023-10-07
Microstructure-property prediction of a Ni-based superalloy: A combined phase-field and finite element modelling approach
Multiscale modelling is a new paradigm that has emerged in recent times to study the well-known problem of the process-structure-property relationship in the area of materials science and engineering. For obtaining the desired performance for materials of strategic importance, such as superalloys, it is essential to br...
2310.04885v1
2023-10-09
Magnetocaloric effect of nanostructured La0.6Sr0.4CoO3
In this study, we investigate the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of nanostructured La0.6Sr0.4CoO3 (LSC) samples synthesized under confinement conditions within porous templates. Using this method, we obtained de-agglomerated nanoparticles, which provide us with the feasibility of applying them in nanoparticle f...
2310.05722v1
2023-10-12
Localization of vibrational modes in high-entropy oxides
The recently-discovered high-entropy oxides offer a paradoxical combination of crystalline arrangement and high disorder. They differ qualitatively from established paradigms for disordered solids such as glasses and alloys. In these latter systems, it is well known that disorder induces localized vibrational excitatio...
2310.08668v1
2023-10-20
475°C aging embrittlement of partially recrystallized FeCrAl ODS ferritic steels after simulated tube process
Tube processing and aging effects in FeCrAl ODS steels are investigated in four mechanical alloyed ferritic ODS steels, Fe15Cr (SP2), Fe15Cr5Al (SP4), Fe15Cr7Al (SP7) and Fe18Cr7Al (SP11). These steels were made into 0.3mm thick plates by simulated tube processing (STP). Strengthening after partial recrystallization wa...
2310.13842v2
2023-10-20
Ultralow lattice thermal transport and considerable wave-like phonon tunneling in chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS$_3$
Chalcogenide perovskites provide a promising avenue for non-toxic, stable thermoelectric materials. Here, thermal transport and thermoelectric properties of BaZrS$_3$ as a typical orthorhombic perovskite are investigated. An extremely low lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa_L$ of 1.84 W/mK at 300 K is revealed for BaZ...
2310.13851v1
2023-10-23
Design of the LLRF control system for MA cavity at CSNS RCS
The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) beam power was successfully reached 125 kW with a low beam loss in February 2022. In order to increase beam power, during the summer in 2022, we employ magnetic-alloy (MA) cavity in the rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). It is a wideband cavity (Q=2), allows the second harmonic ...
2310.14915v1
2023-10-27
Deep-level structure of the spin-active recombination center in dilute nitrides
A Gallium interstitial defect (Ga$_{\textrm{i}}$) is thought to be responsible for the spectacular spin-dependent recombination (SDR) in GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_x$ dilute nitride semiconductors. Current understanding associates this defect with two in-gap levels corresponding to the (+/0) and (++/+) charge-state transitions. Us...
2310.18094v2
2023-11-02
Pattern formation in vector-valued phase fields under convex constraints
In this work, a new class of vector-valued phase field models is presented, where the values of the phase parameters are constrained by a convex set. The generated phase fields feature the partition of the domain into patches of distinct phases, separated by thin interfaces. The configuration and dynamics of the phases...
2311.01119v1
2023-11-03
Automated atomistic simulations of dissociated dislocations with ab initio accuracy
In (M Hodapp and A Shapeev 2020 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1 045005), we have proposed an algorithm that fully automatically trains machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) during large-scale simulations, and successfully applied it to simulate screw dislocation motion in body-centered cubic tungsten. The algor...
2311.01830v2
2023-11-06
Coherent and semicoherent $α$/$β$ interfaces in titanium: structure, thermodynamics, migration
The $\alpha/\beta$ interface is central to the microstructure and mechanical properties of titanium alloys. We investigate the structure, thermodynamics and migration of the coherent and semicoherent Ti $\alpha/\beta$ interfaces as a function of temperature and misfit strain via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the...
2311.02897v2
2023-11-10
Exchange stiffness proportional to power of magnetization in permalloy co-doped with Mo and Cu
The exchange stiffness of magnetic materials is one of the essential parameters governing magnetic texture and its dynamics in magnetic devices. The effect of single-element doping on exchange stiffness has been investigated for several doping elements for permalloy (NiFe alloy), a soft magnetic material whose soft mag...
2311.05852v2
2023-11-10
Cluster Expansion by Transfer Learning from Empirical Potentials
Cluster expansions provide effective representations of the potential energy landscape of multicomponent crystalline solids. Notwithstanding major advances in cluster expansion implementations, it remains computationally demanding to construct these expansions for systems of low dimension or with a large number of comp...
2311.06179v3
2023-11-11
Single-Phase L1$_{0}$-Ordered High Entropy Thin Films with High Magnetic Anisotropy
The vast high entropy alloy (HEA) composition space is promising for discovery of new material phases with unique properties. We explore the potential to achieve rare-earth-free high magnetic anisotropy materials in single-phase HEA thin films. Thin films of FeCoNiMnCu sputtered on thermally oxidized Si/SiO$_{2}$ subst...
2311.06618v2
2023-11-15
Amplitude Higgs mode in superconductors with magnetic impurities
We study nonlinear response of conventional superconducting alloys with weak magnetic impurities to an external alternating electromagnetic field. In particular, we calculate a correction to superconducting order parameter up to the second order in external vector potential. We show that frequency dependence of the ord...
2311.09310v1
2023-11-17
A priori procedure to establish spinodal decomposition in alloys
Spinodal decomposition can improve a number of essential properties in materials, especially hardness. Yet, the theoretical prediction of the onset of this phenomenon (e.g., temperature) and its microstructure (e.g., wavelength) often requires input parameters coming from costly and time-consuming experimental efforts,...
2311.10531v1
2023-11-22
Optical Absorption Effects in Thermal Radiation Barrier Coating Materials
Future gas turbine engines will operate at higher gas temperatures and consequentially hot-section components such as blades, vanes and combustors, will be subject to higher thermal radiation fluxes than today. Current thermal barrier coating materials are translucent over the spectral region of the heat flux so future...
2311.13599v1
2023-11-26
Natural Aging and Vacancy Trapping in Al-6xxx
Undesirable natural aging (NA) in Al-6xxx delays subsequent artificial aging (AA) but the size, composition, and evolution of clustering are challenging to measure. Here, atomistic details of early-stage clustering in Al-1\%Mg-0.6\%Si during NA are studied computationally using a chemically-accurate neural-network pote...
2311.15394v1
2023-11-28
Machine learning force-field models for metallic spin glass
Metallic spin glass systems, such as dilute magnetic alloys, are characterized by randomly distributed local moments coupled to each other through a long-range electron-mediated effective interaction. We present a scalable machine learning (ML) framework for dynamical simulations of metallic spin glasses. A Behler-Parr...
2311.16964v1
2023-11-29
A Data-Driven, Non-Linear, Parameterized Reduced Order Model of Metal 3D Printing
Directed energy deposition (DED) is a promising metal additive manufacturing technology capable of 3D printing metal parts with complex geometries at lower cost compared to traditional manufacturing. The technology is most effective when process parameters like laser scan speed and power are optimized for a particular ...
2311.18036v1
2023-11-30
Growth of high-quality CrI3 single crystals and engineering of its magnetic properties via V and Mn doping
CrI3, as a soft van der Waals layered magnetic material, has been widely concerned and explored for its magnetic complexity and tunability. In this work, high quality and large size thin CrI3, V and Mn doped single crystals were prepared by chemical vapor transfer method. A remarkable irreversible Barkhausen effect was...
2311.18360v1
2023-12-11
Features of nanocontact formed using point electrical breakdown of a niobium oxide nanolayer
The electrical characteristics of a point section of niobium oxide between a massive cathode made of a superconducting indium-tin alloy and a niobium film before the oxide breakdown and the nanocontact that appears after the breakdown of the oxide at room temperature have been studied. The dependences of the point brea...
2312.06816v1
2023-12-15
Hyperbolic Bloch points in ferrimagnetic exchange spring
Bloch points in magnetic materials are attractive entities in view of magnetic information transport. Here, Bloch point configuration has been investigated and experimentally determined in a magnetic trilayer ($Gd_{12}Co_{88}/Nd_{17}Co_{83}/Gd_{24}Co_{76}$) with carefully adjusted composition within the ferrimagnetic $...
2312.09836v1
2023-12-29
A "Magnetic" Machine Learning Interatomic Potential for Nickel
Nickel (Ni) is a magnetic transition metal with two allotropic phases, stable face-centered cubic (FCC) and metastable hexagonal close-packed (HCP), widely used in structural applications. Magnetism affects many mechanical and defect properties, but spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT) calculations are comput...
2312.17596v2
2024-01-02
High entropy ceramics for applications in extreme environments
Compositionally complex materials have demonstrated extraordinary promise for structural robustness in extreme environments. Of these, the most commonly thought of are high entropy alloys, where chemical complexity grants uncommon combinations of hardness, ductility, and thermal resilience. In contrast to these metal-m...
2401.01418v1
2024-01-08
Towards interpreting the thermally activated $β$ dynamics in metallic glass with the structural constraint neural network
Unraveling the structural factors influencing the dynamics of amorphous solids is crucial. While deep learning aids in navigating these complexities, transparency issues persist. Inspired by the successful application of prototype neural networks in the field of image analysis, this study introduces a new machine-learn...
2401.03743v1
2024-01-10
Catalyst-free MBE growth of PbSnTe nanowires with tunable aspect ratio
Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are interesting for their topological surface states, which hold great promise for scattering-free transport channels and fault-tolerant quantum computing. A promising TCI is SnTe. However, Sn-vacancies form in SnTe, causing a high hole density, hindering topological transport ...
2401.04990v1
2024-01-10
Using polarization sensitive SMLM to infer the interaction strength of dye-plasmonic nanosphere systems
Single molecule microscopy has proven to be an effective tool to characterize the fluorophore-plasmonic structure interaction. However, as specific information is hidden in the emission, sophisticated evaluation is required. Here we investigated the emission polarization of rotationally mobile fluorophores near plasmon...
2401.05231v1
2024-01-29
Copper alloys deterioration due to anthropogenic action
Results are presented from several samples taken from leaves of the Pardon Portico of Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, where an alteration on their surface was detected. Metal samples analyzed using X-ray microanalysis and powder x-ray diffraction were predominantly constituted by copper with some amounts of zinc attribute...
2401.16538v1
2024-01-30
Photoluminescence enhancement in quaternary III-nitrides alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy with increasing Al content
Room temperature photoluminescence and optical absorption spectra have been measured in wurtzite In$_{x}$Al$_{y}$Ga$_{1-x-y}$N (x $\approx$ 0.06, 0.02 < y < 0.27) layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. Photoluminescence spectra show both an enhancement of the integrated intensity and an increasing Stokes shift with th...
2402.00582v1
2024-02-08
Rigorous relations for barrier transmittance and some physical corollaries
Exactly solvable models are interesting for science and education, since they help in scientific search and in understanding of phenomena. Some exact solutions for simple quantum-mechanical models are considered. The models include two barriers, combinations of barrier pairs, three barriers, three wells etc. The model ...
2402.05603v1
2024-02-12
Cartesian atomic cluster expansion for machine learning interatomic potentials
Machine learning interatomic potentials are revolutionizing large-scale, accurate atomistic modelling in material science and chemistry. Many potentials use atomic cluster expansion or equivariant message passing frameworks. Such frameworks typically use spherical harmonics as angular basis functions, and then use Cleb...
2402.07472v2
2024-02-17
Towards Development of Automated Knowledge Maps and Databases for Materials Engineering using Large Language Models
In this work a Large Language Model (LLM) based workflow is presented that utilizes OpenAI ChatGPT model GPT-3.5-turbo-1106 and Google Gemini Pro model to create summary of text, data and images from research articles. It is demonstrated that by using a series of processing, the key information can be arranged in tabul...
2402.11323v1
2024-02-22
Proposed real-time charge noise measurement via valley state reflectometry
We theoretically propose a method to perform in situ measurements of charge noise during logical operations in silicon quantum dot spin qubits. Our method does not require ancillary spectator qubits but makes use of the valley degree of freedom in silicon. Sharp interface steps or alloy disorder in the well provide a v...
2402.14765v2
2024-02-23
Ab-initio insights into the mechanical, phonon, bonding, electronic, optical and thermal properties of hexagonal W2N3 for potential applications
We investigated the structural, elastic, electronic, vibrational, optical, thermodynamic and a number of thermophysical properties of W2N3 in this study using DFT based formalisms. The mechanical and dynamical stabilities have been confirmed. The Pugh and Poisson ratios are located quite close to the brittle to ductile...
2402.15342v1
2024-02-27
In-plane ordering and tunable magnetism in Cr-based MXenes
MXene, the two-dimensional derivatives of MAX compounds, due to their structural and compositional flexibility, is an ideal family of compounds to study a number of structure-property relations. In this work, we have investigated the tunability of magnetic properties in Cr-based MXenes that have an in-plane ordering ar...
2402.17577v1
2024-03-03
A Predictive Model for Catalytic Methane Pyrolysis
Methane pyrolysis provides a scalable alternative to conventional hydrogen production methods, avoiding greenhouse gas emissions. However, high operating temperatures limit economic feasibility on an industrial scale. A major scientific goal is, therefore, to find a catalyst material that lowers operating temperatures,...
2403.01618v1
2024-03-05
Globally-stable and metastable crystal structure enumeration using polynomial machine learning potentials in elemental As, Bi, Ga, In, La, P, Sb, Sn, and Te
Machine learning potentials (MLPs) have become essential tools for accelerating accurate large-scale atomistic simulations and crystal structure predictions. The polynomial MLPs, which are described by polynomial rotational invariants, have been systematically developed for many elemental and alloy systems. This study ...
2403.02570v1
2024-03-07
Antiferroelectric Nanodomains Stabilized by Chemical Disorder at Anti-phase Boundaries
Antiferroelectric perovskite oxides exhibit exceptional dielectric properties and high structural/chemical tunability, making them promising for a wide range of applications from high energy-density capacitors to solid-state cooling. However, tailoring the antiferroelectric phase stability through alloying is hampered ...
2403.04904v1
2024-03-08
From electrons to phase diagrams with classical and machine learning potentials: automated workflows for materials science with pyiron
We present a comprehensive and user-friendly framework built upon the pyiron integrated development environment (IDE), enabling researchers to perform the entire Machine Learning Potential (MLP) development cycle consisting of (i) creating systematic DFT databases, (ii) fitting the Density Functional Theory (DFT) data ...
2403.05724v1
2024-03-12
Magnetic Phase Diagram and Skyrmions of the Hubbard Model on the Beta-Mn Type Lattice
Magnetic phase diagram for the Hubbard model on the Beta-Mn type lattice has been calculated as a function of the Coulomb interaction energy parameter U and the electron number per atom n by using the generalized Hartree-Fock approximation combined with the recursion method for electronic-structure calculations. The fe...
2403.07443v1
2024-03-12
Mechanisms of Elevated Temperature Galling in Hardfacings
The galling mechanism of Tristelle 5183, an Fe-based hardfacing alloy, was investigated at elevated temperature. The test was performed using a bespoke galling rig. Adhesive transfer and galling were found to occur, as a result of shear at the adhesion boundary and the activation of an internal shear plane within one o...
2403.07730v1
2024-03-13
Thermodynamic Integration for Dynamically Unstable Systems Using Interatomic Force Constants without Molecular Dynamics
We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is performed without molecular dynamics using only interatomic force constants to model ana...
2403.08644v1
2024-03-20
Data-Driven Modeling of Dislocation Mobility from Atomistics using Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Dislocation mobility, which dictates the response of dislocations to an applied stress, is a fundamental property of crystalline materials that governs the evolution of plastic deformation. Traditional approaches for deriving mobility laws rely on phenomenological models of the underlying physics, whose free parameters...
2403.14015v1
2024-03-22
Study on ploughing phenomena in tool flank face workpiece interface including tool wear effect during ball end milling
Ploughing phenomena occurring during precise machining processes affect the formation of surface finish and progress of tool wear. Therefore, this study presents an evaluation of ploughing phenomenon by studying the ploughing forces in tool flank face workpiece interface during precise ball end milling of AISI L6 alloy...
2403.15554v1
2024-03-25
Nonequilibrium Bound for Canonical Nonlinearity Under Single-Shot Work
For classical discrete systems under constant composition (specifically substitutional alloys), canonical average acts as a map from a set of many-body interatomic interactions to a set of configuration in thermodynamic equilibrium, which is generally nonlinear. In terms of the configurational geometry (i.e., informati...
2403.16383v2
2024-03-27
Unraveling the collinearity in short-range order parameters for lattice configurations arising from topological constraints
In multicomponent lattice problems, e.g., in alloys, and at crystalline surfaces and interfaces, atomic arrangements exhibit spatial correlations that dictate the kinetic and thermodynamic phase behavior. These correlations emerge from interparticle interactions and are frequently reported in terms of the short-range o...
2403.18380v1
2024-03-29
Synthesis of $c$-axis textured CaKFe$_4$As$_4$ superconducting bulk via spark plasma texturing technique
Grain alignment is a key factor that determines the performance of a superconducting bulk. In this study, the spark plasma texturing (SPT) technique was used to fabricate a CaKFe$_4$As$_4$ superconducting bulk. X-ray diffraction and electron backscatter diffraction revealed that the $c$-axes of the CaKFe$_4$As$_4$ grai...
2403.19984v1
2024-03-31
A uniqueness theory on determining the nonlinear energy potential in phase-field system
The phase-field system is a nonlinear model that has significant applications in material sciences. In this paper, we are concerned with the uniqueness of determining the nonlinear energy potential in a phase-field system consisted of Cahn-Hilliard and Allen-Cahn equations. This system finds widespread applications in ...
2404.00587v1
2024-04-02
Identification and characterization of three-dimensional crack propagation mechanism in the Aluminium alloy AA2024-T3 using high-resolution Digital Image Correlation
Fatigue crack growth is usually a three-dimensional problem, but it is often simplified to two dimensions to reduce complexity. However, this study investigates the relationships between microscopic effects such as crack kinking, shear lips, and plasticity that are present in reality. Therefore, crack propagation tests...
2404.01852v1
2024-04-03
Enhancing Phase Stability and Coercivity of MnAl $τ$-L$1_0$ with Fe and Ni Substitutions: \textit{ab initio} and Micromagnetic Modeling
The binary manganese aluminium (MnAl) alloy with L$1_0$ crystal structure, which exhibits exceptional magnetic properties, is a promising rare earth element free permanent magnet material. However, according to experimental reports, synthesizing it in a stable bulk form is extremely challenging. Here, we propose and th...
2404.03051v1
2024-04-04
Significantly Enhanced Vacancy Diffusion in Mn-containing Alloys
Manipulating point defects for tailored macroscopic properties remains a formidable challenge in materials science. This study demonstrates a proof-of-principle for a universal law involving element Mn, significantly enhancing vacancy diffusion through an unprecedented anomalous Friedel Oscillations phenomenon, across ...
2404.03339v1
2024-04-05
Establishing the relationship between generalized crystallographic texture and macroscopic yield surfaces using partial input convex neural networks
In this study, we present a methodology to predict the macroscopic yield surface of metals and metallic alloys with general crystallographic textures. In previous work, we have established the use of partially input convex neural networks (pICNN) as macroscopic yield functions of crystal plasticity simulations. However...
2404.03863v1
2024-04-07
Electronic origin of solute effects on the mobility of screw dislocation in bcc molybdenum
In body-centered cubic (bcc) metals such as molybdenum, screw dislocations often exhibit non-Schmid behavior, moving in directions unpredicted by the Schmid law. The mobility of these dislocations is notably influenced by the presence of solute atoms within the alloy matrix. In this study, employing first-principles ca...
2404.04897v1
2024-04-10
Revealing mechanism of pore defect formation in laser directed energy deposition of aluminum alloy via in-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging
Laser metal additive manufacturing technology is capable of producing components with complex geometries and compositions that cannot be realized by conventional manufacturing methods. However, a large number of pores generated during the additive manufacturing process greatly affect the mechanical properties of the ad...
2404.06853v1
2024-04-11
Hydrogen Trapping and Embrittlement in Metals -- A Review
Hydrogen embrittlement in metals (HE) is a serious challenge for the use of high strength materials in engineering practice and a major barrier to the use of hydrogen for global decarbonization. Here we describe the factors and variables that determine HE susceptibility and provide an overview of the latest understandi...
2404.07736v1
2024-04-14
The Next Generation of MeV Energy X-ray Sources for use in the Inspection of Additively Manufactured Parts for Industry
For the first time, we demonstrate the application of an inverse Compton scattering X-ray Source, driven by a laser-plasma accelerator, to image an additively manufactured component. X-rays with a mean energy of 380 keV were produced and used to image an additively manufactured part made of an Inconel (Nickel 718) allo...
2404.09270v1
2024-04-15
LatticeML: A data-driven application for predicting the effective Young Modulus of high temperature graph based architected materials
Architected materials with their unique topology and geometry offer the potential to modify physical and mechanical properties. Machine learning can accelerate the design and optimization of these materials by identifying optimal designs and forecasting performance. This work presents LatticeML, a data-driven applicati...
2404.09470v2
2024-04-15
A general thermodynamical model for finitely-strained continuum with inelasticity and diffusion, its GENERIC derivation in Eulerian formulation, and some application
A thermodynamically consistent visco-elastodynamical model at finite strains is derived that also allows for inelasticity (like plasticity or creep), thermal coupling, and poroelasticity with diffusion. The theory is developed in the Eulerian framework and is shown to be consistent with the thermodynamic framework give...
2404.10126v1