Gamma-expansion for a 1D Confined Lennard-Jones model with point defect

Details Gamma-expansion for a 1D Confined Lennard-Jones model with point defect Gamma-expansion for a 1D Confined Lennard-Jones model with point defect

2012-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/1203.4121v2

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

26 pages, 3 figures

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We compute a rigorous asymptotic expansion of the energy of a point defect in a 1D chain of atoms with second neighbour interactions. We propose the Confined Lennard-Jones model for interatomic interactions, where it is assumed that nearest neighbour potentials are globally convex and second neighbour potentials are globally concave. We derive the {\Gamma}-limit for the energy functional as the number of atoms per period tends to infinity and derive an explicit form for the first order term in a {\Gamma}-expansion in terms of an infinite cell problem. We prove exponential decay properties for minimisers of the energy in the infinite cell problem, suggesting that the perturbation to the deformation introduced by the defect is confined to a thin boundary layer.

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