On the estimation of spatial averaging volume for determining stress using atomistic methods

The estimation of stress at a continuum point from the atomistic scale requires volume averaging over a region that contains this point. A hypothesis is put forth to obtain a lower bound for the size of this region based on an analogy to the Ising model. This hypothesis is tested on copper using two classical elasticity problems.

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