• Media type: Text; Report; E-Book
  • Title: Distribution of cracks in a chain of atoms at low temperature
  • Contributor: Jansen, Sabine [Author]; König, Wolfgang [Author]; Schmidt, Bernd [Author]; Theil, Florian [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2020
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2789
  • Keywords: 60F10 ; 82B21 ; Equilibrium statistical mechanics -- atomistic models of elasticity -- fracture -- lattice gas of defects ; 74G65 ; 74B20 ; article
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  • Description: We consider a one-dimensional classical many-body system with interaction potential of Lennard--Jones type in the thermodynamic limit at low temperature 1/β ∈ (0, ∞). The ground state is a periodic lattice. We show that when the density is strictly smaller than the density of the ground state lattice, the system with N particles fills space by alternating approximately crystalline domains (clusters) with empty domains (voids) due to cracked bonds. The number of domains is of the order of N exp(-β e surf /2) with e surf > 0 a surface energy.