Simulating Continuous-Rotation 3D Electron Diffraction: A Multislice and Bloch Wave Framework
Abstract
To improve the agreement between measured and calculated intensities of three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) experiments, a simulation pipeline is needed to assess and quantify the influence of various structural and experimental parameters. We present a computational pipeline, built upon the abTEM Python package, to simulate continuous-rotation 3D electron diffraction data based on either the Bloch wave or the multislice formalism. Multislice calculations in arbitrary orientations are achieved through large supercells and windowing. We investigate the convergence of key simulation parameters and test their consistency, establishing suitable parameters for accurate and efficient simulations. The pipeline's applicability and robustness are demonstrated through case studies on cubic silicon as well as stretched and sheared variants, analyzing the influence of electron kinetic energy, sample thickness, orientation, and symmetry on simulated diffraction intensities. Finally, we investigate a representative selection of seven compounds, including cubic SrTiO3, monoclinic α-glycine C2H5NO2, and triclinic kyanite Al2SiO5 to validate the method. This framework for the simulation of 3D electron diffraction data establishes an approach to investigate the dependence of diffracted intensities on experimentally relevant parameters which are difficult to systematically investigate in experiments.
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BibTeX
@misc{cabaj2026simulating,
title = {{Simulating Continuous-Rotation 3D Electron Diffraction: A Multislice and Bloch Wave Framework}},
author = {Małgorzata K. Cabaj and Jacob Madsen and Toma Susi and Lukáš Palatinus and Paul B. Klar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.01378},
eprint = {2609.01378},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01378},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Simulating Continuous-Rotation 3D Electron Diffraction: A Multislice and Bloch Wave Framework
AU - Małgorzata K. Cabaj
AU - Jacob Madsen
AU - Toma Susi
AU - Lukáš Palatinus
AU - Paul B. Klar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.01378
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01378
AB - To improve the agreement between measured and calculated intensities of three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) experiments, a simulation pipeline is needed to assess and quantify the influence of various structural and experimental parameters. We present a computational pipeline, built upon the abTEM Python package, to simulate continuous-rotation 3D electron diffraction data based on either the Bloch wave or the multislice formalism. Multislice calculations in arbitrary orientations are achieved through large supercells and windowing. We investigate the convergence of key simulation parameters and test their consistency, establishing suitable parameters for accurate and efficient simulations. The pipeline's applicability and robustness are demonstrated through case studies on cubic silicon as well as stretched and sheared variants, analyzing the influence of electron kinetic energy, sample thickness, orientation, and symmetry on simulated diffraction intensities. Finally, we investigate a representative selection of seven compounds, including cubic SrTiO_3, monoclinic α-glycine C_2H_5NO_2, and triclinic kyanite Al_2SiO_5 to validate the method. This framework for the simulation of 3D electron diffraction data establishes an approach to investigate the dependence of diffracted intensities on experimentally relevant parameters which are difficult to systematically investigate in experiments.
ER -