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Continuum approaches for modeling radiation-induced self-organization in materials: From the rate theory to the phase field approach

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Microstructural patterns resulting from self-organization are responsible for phase transitions and property changes in many materials maintained far from the thermodynamic equilibrium. Understanding the origin and the selection of possible spatiotemporal patterns for dissipative systems, i.e., systems for which the energy is not conserved, is a major theme of research opening doors to many technological applications ranging from plasmonics to metamaterials. Almost forty years after Turing’s seminal paper on patterning, progress on modeling instabilities leading to pattern formation has been achieved. The first part of this work demonstrates that main field approaches succeeded in capturing the underlying physics responsible for the formation of radiation-induced spatiotemporal patterns experimentally observed. The second part of the text highlights the interest of the phase field method, a self-consistent mean field approach, to discuss the evolution of these patterns in a universal picture neglecting specific aspects of radiation-induced dynamics.

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It is a pleasure to thank M. Athenes and A. Forestier for numerous stimulating discussions on dissipative systems and gradient flow systems.

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    David Simeone, Joel Ribis & Laurence Luneville

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    David Simeone, Joel Ribis & Laurence Luneville

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Simeone, D., Ribis, J. & Luneville, L. Continuum approaches for modeling radiation-induced self-organization in materials: From the rate theory to the phase field approach. Journal of Materials Research 33, 440–454 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.9

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