Fingering Instability of Dislocations and Related Defects

Details Fingering Instability of Dislocations and Related Defects Fingering Instability of Dislocations and Related Defects

1998-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9808112v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2306

We identify a fundamental morphological instability of mobile dislocations in crystals and related line defects. A positive gradient in the local driving force along the direction of defect motion destabilizes long-wavelength vibrational modes, producing a ``fingering'' pattern. The minimum unstable wavelength scales as the inverse square root of the force gradient. We demonstrate the instability's onset in simulations of a screw dislocation in Al (via molecular dynamics) and of a vortex in a 3-d XY ``rotator'' model.

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