Phase-field crystal approach for modeling the role of microstructure in multiferroic composite materials

This paper introduces a phase-field crystal (PFC) approach that couples the atomic-scale PFC density field to order parameters describing ferromagnetic and ferroelectric ordering, as well to a solute impurity field. This model extends the magnetic PFC model introduced by Faghihi et al. [N. Faghihi, Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Western Ontario, 2012; N. Faghihi, N. Provatas, K. R. Elder, M. Grant, and M. Karttunen, Phys. Rev. E 88, 032407 …