TY - JOUR
T1 - Driven alloys in the athermal limit
AU - Lund, Alan C.
AU - Schuh, Christopher A.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Static molecular simulations of binary alloys under extrinsic forcing show that complex ordered or segregated structures may evolve even in the absence of thermally activated diffusion. This result is in opposition to the standard theoretical framework for so-called “driven alloys,” which assumes that extrinsic driving is an ideally randomizing process, and therefore predicts only random atomic configurations in the athermal limit. We propose a qualitative modification to the theory that introduces a new control parameter and use additional Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate the physical plausibility of this modification. New research directions in nonequilibrium dynamic systems are also suggested by this analysis.
AB - Static molecular simulations of binary alloys under extrinsic forcing show that complex ordered or segregated structures may evolve even in the absence of thermally activated diffusion. This result is in opposition to the standard theoretical framework for so-called “driven alloys,” which assumes that extrinsic driving is an ideally randomizing process, and therefore predicts only random atomic configurations in the athermal limit. We propose a qualitative modification to the theory that introduces a new control parameter and use additional Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate the physical plausibility of this modification. New research directions in nonequilibrium dynamic systems are also suggested by this analysis.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.235505
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.235505
M3 - Article
C2 - 14683196
AN - SCOPUS:0346504250
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 91
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 23
ER -