title: Plasticity and dislocation dynamics in a phase field crystal model.
abstract: The critical dynamics of dislocation avalanches in plastic flow is examined using a phase field crystal model. In the model, dislocations are naturally created, without any ad hoc creation rules, by applying a shearing force to the perfectly periodic ground state. These dislocations diffuse, interact and annihilate with one another, forming avalanche events. By data collapsing the event energy probability density function for different shearing rates, a connection to interface depinning dynamics is confirmed. The relevant critical exponents agree with mean field theory predictions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Loomis Laboratory of Physics, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois, 61801-3080, USA.
authors.forename: Pak Yuen
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tsekenis
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dantzig
authors.forename: Karin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Dahmen
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Goldenfeld