Citing

If VirTex helps in your research, please cite the following paper.

@article{mishra2022virtual,
  title={Virtual texture analysis to investigate the deformation mechanisms in metal microstructures at the atomic scale},
  author={Mishra, Avanish and Echeverria, Marco J and Ma, Ke and Parida, Shayani and Chen, Ching and Galitskiy, Sergey and Dongare, Avinash M},
  journal={Journal of Materials Science},
  pages={1--20},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Springer}
}

Other articles

Please also cite the package you used to generate quaternion angles (LAMMPS or Ovito). If you used any other external package, please cite accordingly.

LAMMPS

The LAMMPS molecular dynamics simulation package.

@article{lammps,
  title = {Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics},
  journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
  volume = {117},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1-19},
  year = {1995},
  issn = {0021-9991},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1995.1039},
  url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002199918571039X},
  author = {Steve Plimpton}
}

@article{newlammps,
author = "A. P. Thompson and H. M. Aktulga and R. Berger and
   D. S. Bolintineanu and W. M. Brown and P. S. Crozier and
   P. J. in 't Veld and A. Kohlmeyer and S. G. Moore and T. D. Nguyen and
   R. Shan and M. J. Stevens and J. Tranchida and C. Trott and S. J. Plimpton",
title = "{LAMMPS} - a flexible simulation tool for
   particle-based materials modeling at the
   atomic, meso, and continuum scales",
journal = "Comp. Phys. Comm.",
volume =  "271",
pages =   "108171",
year =    "2022",
doi = "10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108171"
}

Ovito

The Ovito visualization package.

  @article{ ovito,
  Author = {Stukowski, Alexander},
  Title = {{Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO-the
   Open Visualization Tool}},
  Journal = {{MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING}},
  Year = {{2010}},
  Volume = {{18}},
  Number = {{1}},
  Month = {{JAN}},
  DOI = {{10.1088/0965-0393/18/1/015012}},
  Article-Number = {{015012}},
  ISSN = {{0965-0393}},
  EISSN = {{1361-651X}},
  ResearcherID-Numbers = {{Stukowski, Alexander/G-9695-2017}},
  ORCID-Numbers = {{Stukowski, Alexander/0000-0001-6750-3401}},
  Unique-ID = {{ISI:000272791800012}},
}