Lattice Green function for extended defect calculations: Computation and error estimation with long-range forces

Details Lattice Green function for extended defect calculations: Computation and error estimation with long-range forces Lattice Green function for extended defect calculations: Computation and error estimation with long-range forces

2006-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607388v1

Phys. Rev. B 78, 014110 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

35 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.014110

Computing the atomic geometry of lattice defects--point defects, dislocations, crack tips, surfaces, or boundaries--requires an accurate coupling of the local strain field to the long-range elastic field. Periodic boundary conditions used by classical potentials or density-functional theory may not accurately reproduce the correct bulk response to an isolated defect; this is especially true for dislocations. Recently, flexible boundary conditions have been developed to produce the correct long-range strain field from a defect--effectively "embedding" a defect in a finite cell with infinite bulk response, isolating it from either periodic images or free surfaces. Flexible boundary conditions require the calculation of the bulk response with the lattice Green function (LGF). While the LGF can be computed from the dynamical matrix, for supercell methods (periodic boundary conditions) it can only be calculated up to a maximum range. We illustrate how to accurately calculate the lattice Green function and estimate the error using a cutoff dynamical matrix combined with knowledge of the long-range behavior of the lattice Green function. The effective range of deviation of the lattice Green function from the long-range elastic behavior provides an important length scale in multiscale quasi-continuum and flexible boundary-condition calculations, and measures the error introduced with periodic boundary conditions.

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