Atomistic/Continuum Blending with Ghost Force Correction

We combine the ideas of atomistic/continuum energy blending and ghost force correction to obtain an energy-based atomistic/continuum coupling scheme which has, for a range of benchmark problems, the same convergence rates as optimal force-based coupling schemes. We present the construction of this new scheme, numerical results exploring its accuracy in comparison with established schemes, as well as a rigorous error analysis for an instructive special case.

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