Fig. 3
From: Annihilation and sources in continuum dislocation dynamics
Top view of a cross slip induced recombination process. Left: cross slip initiates the annihilation of near-screw segments of two merging dislocation loops. The dashed lines shows the annihilated parts of the loops. After the initiation of the cross slip, loops continue to merge by interaction between segments AB(s(φ)) and AC (s(φ′)). Right: Recombination of segments s(φ) and s(φ′) generates a new segment s(φ″) with edge orientation which changes the total dislocation density and mean orientation