Imperial College London

DrSergeiDudarev

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

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811Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Reali L, Dudarev SL, 2024, Finite element models for radiation effects in nuclear fusion applications, Nuclear Fusion, Vol: 64, ISSN: 0029-5515

Deuterium-tritium fusion reactions produce energy in the form of 14.1 MeV neutrons, and hence fusion reactor components will be exposed to high energy neutron irradiation while also being subjected to thermal, mechanical and magnetic loads. Exposure to neutron irradiation has numerous consequences, including swelling and dimensional changes, comparable in magnitude to the peak transient thermal deformations occurring in plasma-facing components. Irradiation also dynamically alters the various thermo-mechanical properties, relating temperature, stress and swelling in a strongly non-linear way. Experimental data on the effect of neutron exposure spanning the design parameter space are very sparse and this highlights the relevance of computer simulations. In this study we explore the equivalence between the body force/surface traction approach and the eigenstrain formalism for treating anisotropic irradiation-induced swelling. We find that both commercial and massively parallelised open source software for finite element method (FEM) simulations are suitable for assessing the effect of neutron exposure on the mechanically loaded reactor components. We demonstrate how two primary effects of irradiation, radiation swelling and the degradation of thermal conductivity, affect the distributions of stress and temperature in the divertor of the ITER tokamak. Significant uncertainties characterising the magnitude of swelling and models for treating it suggest that on the basis of the presently available data, only an order of magnitude estimate can be given to the stress developing in reactor components most exposed to irradiation during service.

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Fedorov M, Wróbel JS, London AJ, Kurzydłowski KJ, Fu CC, Tadić T, Dudarev SL, Nguyen-Manh Det al., 2023, Precipitation of Cr-rich clusters in Fe-Cr alloys: Effects of irradiation from first principles modeling and experimental observations, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol: 587, ISSN: 0022-3115

Using exchange Monte Carlo (MC) simulations based on an ab initio-parameterized Cluster Expansion (CE) model, we explore the phase stability of low-Cr Fe-Cr alloys as a function of vacancy (Vac), carbon, and nitrogen content. To parameterize the CE model, we perform Density Functional Theory calculations for more than 1600 supercells containing Cr-Vac-C-N clusters of various sizes in pure bcc Fe, Cr, and Fe-Cr alloys. MC simulations performed for T=650 K show that Cr clustering in Fe-3.28 at.%Cr alloys does not occur if there are no defects or if only vacancies are present. But the addition of a small amount of C or N, at the level as low as 0.02 at.% in an alloy with no vacancies, routinely results in the formation of ordered compounds containing a high amount of Cr, C and N. Cr segregates to interstitial atoms and Cr content in such Cr-rich clusters increases as a function of C and/or N concentration. In the presence of vacancies, C/N aggregate to the core regions of vacancy clusters, making segregation of Cr-rich clusters less pronounced. The structure of Cr-rich clusters varies significantly, depending on the concentration of interstitial atoms and on the ratio of N to C. Predictions derived from MC simulations agree with experimental observations of Fe-Cr alloys exposed to ion irradiation. The concentration of Cr found in clusters containing C and N interstitial atoms is in qualitative agreement, and the absolute Cr content found in the clusters simulated at 650 K is in quantitative agreement with experimental Atom Probe Tomography (APT) observations of Fe-3.28 at.%Cr alloys irradiated at 623 K. The measured C and N content of 42±5 and 151±3 atomic ppm likely results from the contamination that occurred during ion beam irradiation.

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Wells T, Foulkes W, Dudarev S, Horsfield AHet al., 2023, The Einstein-de Haas effect in an Fe₁₅ cluster, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol: 35, Pages: 1-16, ISSN: 0953-8984

Classical models of spin-lattice coupling are at present unable to accurately reproduce results for numerous properties of ferromagnetic materials, such as heat transport coefficients or the sudden collapse of the magnetic moment in hcp-Fe under pressure. This failure has been attributed to the absence of a proper treatment of effects that are inherently quantum mechanical in nature, notably spin-orbit coupling. This paper introduces a time-dependent, non-collinear tight binding model, complete with spin-orbit coupling and vector Stoner exchange terms, that is capable of simulating the Einstein-de Haas effect in a ferromagnetic Fe15 cluster. The tight binding model is used to investigate the adiabaticity timescales that determine the response of the orbital and spin angular momenta to a rotating, externally applied Β field, and we show that the qualitative behaviours of our simulations can be extrapolated to realistic timescales by use of the adiabatic theorem. 
An analysis of the trends in the torque contributions with respect to the field strength demonstrates that SOC is necessary to observe a transfer of angular momentum from the electrons to the nuclei at experimentally realistic Β fields.
The simulations presented in this paper demonstrate the Einstein-de Haas effect from first principles using a Fe cluster.

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Ma P-W, Mason DR, Van Boxel S, Dudarev SLet al., 2023, Athermal evolution of nanocrystalline tungsten driven by irradiation, JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, Vol: 586, ISSN: 0022-3115

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Reali L, Gilbert MR, Boleininger M, Dudarev SLet al., 2023, γ-photons and high-energy electrons produced by neutron irradiation in nuclear materials, JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, Vol: 585, ISSN: 0022-3115

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Warwick AR, Thomas R, Boleininger M, Koc O, Zilahi G, Ribarik G, Hegedues Z, Lienert U, Ungar T, Race C, Preuss M, Frankel P, Dudarev SLet al., 2023, Dislocation density transients and saturation in irradiated zirconium, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY, Vol: 164, ISSN: 0749-6419

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Boleininger M, Mason DR, Sand AE, Dudarev SLet al., 2023, Microstructure of a heavily irradiated metal exposed to a spectrum of atomic recoils, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol: 13, ISSN: 2045-2322

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Boleininger M, Dudarev SL, Mason DR, Martinez Eet al., 2022, Volume of a dislocation network, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 6, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Reali L, Boleininger M, Gilbert MR, Dudarev SLet al., 2022, Macroscopic elastic stress and strain produced by irradiation, NUCLEAR FUSION, Vol: 62, ISSN: 0029-5515

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Warwick AR, Boleininger M, Dudarev SL, 2021, Microstructural complexity and dimensional changes in heavily irradiated zirconium, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Gilbert MR, Arakawa K, Bergstrom Z, Caturla MJ, Dudarev SL, Gao F, Goryaeva AM, Hu SY, Hu X, Kurtz RJ, Litnovsky A, Marian J, Marinica M-C, Martinez E, Marquis EA, Mason DR, Nguyen BN, Olsson P, Osetskiy Y, Senor D, Setyawan W, Short MP, Suzudo T, Trelewicz JR, Tsuru T, Was GS, Wirth BD, Yang L, Zhang Y, Zinkle SJet al., 2021, Perspectives on multiscale modelling and experiments to accelerate materials development for fusion, JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, Vol: 554, ISSN: 0022-3115

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Mason DR, Granberg F, Boleininger M, Schwarz-Selinger T, Nordlund K, Dudarev SLet al., 2021, Parameter-free quantitative simulation of high-dose microstructure and hydrogen retention in ion-irradiated tungsten, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2021, Elastic dipole tensor of a defect at a finite temperature: Definition and properties, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Wrobel JS, Zemla MR, Nguyen-Manh D, Olsson P, Messina L, Domain C, Wejrzanowski T, Dudarev SLet al., 2021, Elastic dipole tensors and relaxation volumes of point defects in concentrated random magnetic Fe-Cr alloys, COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, Vol: 194, ISSN: 0927-0256

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Duc N-M, Wrobel JS, Klimenkov M, Lloyd MJ, Messina L, Dudarev SLet al., 2021, First-principles model for voids decorated by transmutation solutes: Short-range order effects and application to neutron irradiated tungsten, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2021, Nonuniversal structure of point defects in face-centered cubic metals, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Mason DR, Das S, Derlet PM, Dudarev SL, London AJ, Yu H, Phillips NW, Yang D, Mizohata K, Xu R, Hofmann Fet al., 2020, Observation of Transient and Asymptotic Driven Structural States of Tungsten Exposed to Radiation, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol: 125, ISSN: 0031-9007

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Ma P-W, Mason DR, Dudarev SL, 2020, Multiscale analysis of dislocation loops and voids in tungsten, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 4, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2020, CALANIE: Anisotropic elastic correction to the total energy, to mitigate the effect of periodic boundary conditions, COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS, Vol: 252, ISSN: 0010-4655

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Arakawa K, Marinica M-C, Fitzgerald S, Proville L, Duc N-M, Dudarev SL, Ma P-W, Swinburne TD, Goryaeva AM, Yamada T, Amino T, Arai S, Yamamoto Y, Higuchi K, Tanaka N, Yasuda H, Yasuda T, Mori Het al., 2020, Quantum de-trapping and transport of heavy defects in tungsten, NATURE MATERIALS, Vol: 19, Pages: 508-+, ISSN: 1476-1122

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Mason DR, Duc N-M, Marinica M-C, Alexander R, Sand AE, Dudarev SLet al., 2019, Relaxation volumes of microscopic and mesoscopic irradiation-induced defects in tungsten, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, Vol: 126, ISSN: 0021-8979

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Dudarev SL, Liu P, Andersson DA, Stanek CR, Ozaki T, Franchini Cet al., 2019, Parametrization of LSDA plus U for noncollinear magnetic configurations: Multipolar magnetism in UO2, Physical Review Materials, Vol: 3, Pages: 1-14, ISSN: 2475-9953

To explore the formation of noncollinear magnetic configurations in materials with strongly correlated electrons, we derive a noncollinear LSDA+U model involving only one parameter U, as opposed to the difference between the Hubbard and Stoner parameters U−J. Computing U in the constrained random phase approximation, we investigate noncollinear magnetism of uranium dioxide UO2 and find that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) stabilizes the 3k ordered magnetic ground state. The estimated SOC strength in UO2 is as large as 0.73 eV per uranium atom, making spin and orbital degrees of freedom virtually inseparable. Using a multipolar pseudospin Hamiltonian, we show how octupolar and dipole-dipole exchange coupling help establish the 3k magnetic ground state with canted ordering of uranium f orbitals. The cooperative Jahn-Teller effect does not appear to play a significant part in stabilizing the noncollinear 3k state, which has the lowest energy even in an undistorted lattice. The choice of parameter U in the LSDA+U model has a notable quantitative effect on the predicted properties of UO2, in particular on the magnetic exchange interaction and, perhaps trivially, on the band gap: The value of U=3.46eV computed fully ab initio delivers the band gap of 2.11 eV in good agreement with experiment, and a balanced account of other pertinent energy scales.

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Mason DR, Sand AE, Dudarev SL, 2019, Atomistic-object kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of irradiation damage in tungsten, MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Vol: 27, ISSN: 0965-0393

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Wells T, Horsfield A, Foulkes WMC, Dudarev Set al., 2019, The microscopic Einstein-de Haas effect, Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol: 150, ISSN: 0021-9606

The Einstein-de Haas (EdH) effect, where the spin angular momentum of electrons is transferred to the mechanical angular momentum of atoms, was established experimentally in 1915. While a semiclassical explanation of the effect exists, modern electronic structure methods have not yet been applied to model the phenomenon. In this paper, we investigate its microscopic origins by means of a noncollinear tight-binding model of an O2 dimer, which includes the effects of spin-orbit coupling, coupling to an external magnetic field, and vector Stoner exchange. By varying an external magnetic field in the presence of spin-orbit coupling, a torque can be generated on the dimer, validating the presence of the EdH effect. The avoided energy level crossings and the rate of change of magnetic field determine the evolution of the spin. We also find that the torque exerted on the nuclei by the electrons in a time-varying B field is not only due to the EdH effect. The other contributions arise from field-induced changes in the electronic orbital angular momentum and from the direct action of the Faraday electric field associated with the time-varying magnetic field.

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2019, Effect of stress on vacancy formation and migration in body-centered-cubic metals, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 3, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2019, Symmetry-broken self-interstitial defects in chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 3, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Ma P-W, Dudarev SL, 2019, Universality of point defect structure in body-centered cubic metals, PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS, Vol: 3, ISSN: 2475-9953

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Dudarev SL, Mason DR, Tarleton E, Ma P-W, Sand AEet al., 2018, A multi-scale model for stresses, strains and swelling of reactor components under irradiation, NUCLEAR FUSION, Vol: 58, ISSN: 0029-5515

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Rovelli I, Dudarev SL, Sutton AP, 2018, Statistical model for diffusion-mediated recovery of dislocation and point-defect microstructure, Physical Review E, Vol: 98, ISSN: 1539-3755

The evolution of the defect microstructure in materials at high temperature is dominated by diffusion-mediated interactions between dislocations, cavities, and surfaces. This gives rise to complex nonlinear couplings between interstitial and vacancy-type dislocation loops, cavities, and the field of diffusing vacancies that adiabatically follows the evolution of microstructure. In our previous work, we developed a nonlocal model for the climb of curved dislocations and the morphological evolution of cavities during postirradiation annealing of structural components in nuclear reactors. We now expand the formalism to include the treatment of population of very small defects and dislocation loops that are below the experimental detection limit. These are taken into account through a mean field approach coupled with an explicit real-space treatment of larger-scale discrete defect clusters. We find that randomly distributed small defects screen diffusive interactions between larger discrete clusters, renormalizing the free diffusion Green's functions and transforming them into Yukawa-type propagators. The evolution of the coupled system is modelled self-consistently, showing how the defect microstructure evolves through a nonmonotonic variation of the distribution of sizes of dislocation loops and cavities, treated as discrete real-space objects.

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