A GPU-based Solver for Polarization Dynamics in Ferroelectric Materials

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Auteurs principaux: Hasan, Ali, Piccolo, Edoardo, Giordano, Anna, Fedorova, Natalya, Íñiguez-González, Jorge, Rodrigues, Davi, Finocchio, Giovanni
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author Hasan, Ali
Piccolo, Edoardo
Giordano, Anna
Fedorova, Natalya
Íñiguez-González, Jorge
Rodrigues, Davi
Finocchio, Giovanni
author_facet Hasan, Ali
Piccolo, Edoardo
Giordano, Anna
Fedorova, Natalya
Íñiguez-González, Jorge
Rodrigues, Davi
Finocchio, Giovanni
contents Ferroelectric materials can be used for the development of multiple device concepts combining non-volatility, small dimensions, low-power actuation, and electrical tunability. Such development demands efficient and precise design of simulation tools describing the polarization texture. However, most existing ferroelectric solvers are CPU-based and rely on simplified electrostatic treatments and reduced-dimensional representations of the polarization field. These approximations limit their ability to capture finite-size and boundary effects and restrict the range of domain structures and domain walls that can be realistically simulated. Here, we present a fully GPU (graphics processing units)-accelerated and scalable numerical solver, named PETASPIN_microelectrics, for computing the full polarization vector field of ferroelectric systems using the Ginzburg-Landau formalism. Our solver incorporates an optimized and validated calculation of the full electrostatic field and enables the parallel execution of multiple simulations. We systematically validated the solver with several benchmark problems, including phase transitions in BaTiO3 and ferroelectric domain wall profiles. Our simulations reproduce temperature-driven hysteretic phase transitions in BaTiO3. We also reproduce hysteresis loops and demonstrate stabilization of a three-dimensional hybrid skyrmion in a PbTiO3/SrTiO3 bilayer system. Our results show quantitative agreement with predictions from an analytical theory and prior experimental studies. The proposed solver provides an efficient, accurate platform for large-scale simulations of ferroelectric materials including stabilization of topological textures supporting predictive modeling for next-generation of ferroelectric device design.
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spellingShingle A GPU-based Solver for Polarization Dynamics in Ferroelectric Materials
Hasan, Ali
Piccolo, Edoardo
Giordano, Anna
Fedorova, Natalya
Íñiguez-González, Jorge
Rodrigues, Davi
Finocchio, Giovanni
Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Ferroelectric materials can be used for the development of multiple device concepts combining non-volatility, small dimensions, low-power actuation, and electrical tunability. Such development demands efficient and precise design of simulation tools describing the polarization texture. However, most existing ferroelectric solvers are CPU-based and rely on simplified electrostatic treatments and reduced-dimensional representations of the polarization field. These approximations limit their ability to capture finite-size and boundary effects and restrict the range of domain structures and domain walls that can be realistically simulated. Here, we present a fully GPU (graphics processing units)-accelerated and scalable numerical solver, named PETASPIN_microelectrics, for computing the full polarization vector field of ferroelectric systems using the Ginzburg-Landau formalism. Our solver incorporates an optimized and validated calculation of the full electrostatic field and enables the parallel execution of multiple simulations. We systematically validated the solver with several benchmark problems, including phase transitions in BaTiO3 and ferroelectric domain wall profiles. Our simulations reproduce temperature-driven hysteretic phase transitions in BaTiO3. We also reproduce hysteresis loops and demonstrate stabilization of a three-dimensional hybrid skyrmion in a PbTiO3/SrTiO3 bilayer system. Our results show quantitative agreement with predictions from an analytical theory and prior experimental studies. The proposed solver provides an efficient, accurate platform for large-scale simulations of ferroelectric materials including stabilization of topological textures supporting predictive modeling for next-generation of ferroelectric device design.
title A GPU-based Solver for Polarization Dynamics in Ferroelectric Materials
topic Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28800