LAMMPS-a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales

AP Thompson, HM Aktulga, R Berger… - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the classical molecular dynamics simulator LAMMPS was released as an open source
code in 2004, it has become a widely-used tool for particle-based modeling of materials at …

Spin-lattice-dynamics analysis of magnetic properties of iron under compression

G Dos Santos, R Meyer, D Tramontina, EM Bringa… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Compression of a magnetic material leads to a change in its magnetic properties. We
examine this effect using spin-lattice dynamics for the special case of bcc-Fe, using both …

Computational study of elastic waves generated by ultrafast demagnetization in fcc Ni

I Korniienko, P Nieves, A Fraile, R Iglesias… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Picosecond ultrasonics is a fast growing and advanced research field with broad application
to the imaging and characterization of nanostructured materials as well as at a fundamental …

MAELAS: MAgneto-ELAStic properties calculation via computational high-throughput approach

P Nieves, S Arapan, SH Zhang, AP Kądzielawa… - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we present the program MAELAS to calculate magnetocrystalline anisotropy
energy, anisotropic magnetostrictive coefficients and magnetoelastic constants in an …

Elastic anisotropy and its temperature dependence for cubic crystals revealed by molecular dynamics simulations

H Mei, F Wang, J Li, L Kong - Modelling and Simulation in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependent phonon dispersions of BCC iron and tungsten were measured
by running molecular dynamics simulations, based on which the elastic constants and …

Dissociating the phononic, magnetic and electronic contributions to thermal conductivity: a computational study in alpha-iron

S Nikolov, J Tranchida, K Ramakrishna… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Computational tools to study thermodynamic properties of magnetic materials have, until
recently, been limited to phenomenological modeling or to small domain sizes limiting our …

[HTML][HTML] Spin-lattice dynamics simulation of the Einstein–de Haas effect

W Dednam, C Sabater, AE Botha, EB Lombardi… - Computational Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The spin and lattice dynamics of a ferromagnetic nanoparticle are studied via molecular
dynamics and with semi-classical spin dynamics simulations where spin and lattice degrees …

Angular momentum conservation in spin-lattice dynamics simulations

JR Cooke III, JR Lukes - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Kuzkin's angular momentum balance method is implemented in the LAMMPS SPIN package
for atomistic spin-lattice dynamics, along with shifted-force exchange and Néel Hamiltonians …

Atomistic simulations of magnetoelastic effects on sound velocity

P Nieves, J Tranchida, S Nikolov, A Fraile, D Legut - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this work, we leverage atomistic spin-lattice simulations to examine how magnetic
interactions impact the propagation of sound waves through a ferromagnetic material. To …

Automated calculations of exchange magnetostriction

P Nieves, S Arapan, SH Zhang, AP Kądzielawa… - Computational Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a methodology based on deformations of the unit cell that allows to compute the
isotropic magnetoelastic constants, isotropic magnetostrictive coefficients and spontaneous …