scholarly journals Entire crystallization process of Lennard-Jones liquids: A large-scale molecular dynamics study

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 054903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenze Ouyang ◽  
Bin Sun ◽  
Zhiwei Sun ◽  
Shenghua Xu
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (31) ◽  
pp. 1950392
Author(s):  
Qian Chen ◽  
Yao Zhou ◽  
Zean Tian ◽  
Tinghong Gao ◽  
Ting Xiao ◽  
...  

The GaAs nanoparticles crystallization process was simulated with the molecular dynamics package large-scale atomic/molecular massively parallel simulator (LAMMPS). The results show that due to the surface effect, GaAs nanoparticles have a low melting temperature and poor order, and that their atomic thermal vibration at high temperatures is more severe than that of GaAs crystals. The crystallization process of GaAs nanoparticles begins at 970 K and generally completes at 920 K. Atoms with coordination number 3 or 4 form honeycomb-like defective (111) faces of zinc-blende structure on the surface; and atoms with a higher coordination number form two-dimensional dense structures at the subsurface.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1376
Author(s):  
Hideki Kanda ◽  
Wahyudiono ◽  
Motonobu Goto

The Tolman length and interfacial tension of partially miscible symmetric binary Lennard–Jones (LJ) fluids (A, B) was revealed by performing a large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with a sufficient interfacial area and cutting distance. A unique phenomenon was observed in symmetric binary LJ fluids, where two surfaces of tension existed on both sides of an equimolar dividing surface. The range of interaction εAB between the different liquids and the temperature in which the two LJ fluids partially mixed was clarified, and the Tolman length exceeded 3 σ when εAB was strong at higher temperatures. The results show that as the temperature or εAB increases, the Tolman length increases and the interfacial tension decreases. This very long Tolman length indicates that one should be very careful when applying the concept of the liquid–liquid interface in the usual continuum approximation to nanoscale droplets and capillary phase separation in nanopores.


2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (09) ◽  
pp. 1315-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY C. GERMANN ◽  
KAI KADAU

By utilizing the molecular dynamics code SPaSM on Livermore's BlueGene/L architecture, consisting of 212 992 IBM PowerPC440 700 MHz processors, a molecular dynamics simulation was run with one trillion atoms. To demonstrate the practicality and future potential of such ultra large-scale simulations, the onset of the mechanical shear instability occurring in a system of Lennard-Jones particles arranged in a simple cubic lattice was simulated. The evolution of the instability was analyzed on-the-fly using the in-house developed massively parallel graphical object-rendering code MD_render.


2004 ◽  
Vol 821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus J. Buehler ◽  
Alexander Hartmaier ◽  
Mark Duchaineau ◽  
Farid F. Abraham ◽  
Huajian Gao

AbstractWe analyze a large-scale molecular dynamics simulation of work hardening in a ductile model material comprising of 500 million atoms interacting with a Lennard-Jones pair potential within a classical molecular dynamics scheme. With tensile loading, we observe emission of thousands of dislocations from two sharp cracks. The dislocations interact in a complex way, revealing three fundamental mechanisms of work-hardening. These are (1) dislocation cutting processes, jog formation and generation of point defects; (2) activation of secondary slip systems by cross-slip; and (3) formation of sessile Lomer-Cottrell locks. The dislocations self-organize into a complex sessile defect topology. Our analysis illustrates mechanisms formerly only known from textbooks and observed indirectly in experiment. It is the first time that such a rich set of fundamental phenomena has been seen in a single computer simulation.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liqun Cao ◽  
Jinzhe Zeng ◽  
Mingyuan Xu ◽  
Chih-Hao Chin ◽  
Tong Zhu ◽  
...  

Combustion is a kind of important reaction that affects people's daily lives and the development of aerospace. Exploring the reaction mechanism contributes to the understanding of combustion and the more efficient use of fuels. Ab initio quantum mechanical (QM) calculation is precise but limited by its computational time for large-scale systems. In order to carry out reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for combustion accurately and quickly, we develop the MFCC-combustion method in this study, which calculates the interaction between atoms using QM method at the level of MN15/6-31G(d). Each molecule in systems is treated as a fragment, and when the distance between any two atoms in different molecules is greater than 3.5 Å, a new fragment involved two molecules is produced in order to consider the two-body interaction. The deviations of MFCC-combustion from full system calculations are within a few kcal/mol, and the result clearly shows that the calculated energies of the different systems using MFCC-combustion are close to converging after the distance thresholds are larger than 3.5 Å for the two-body QM interactions. The methane combustion was studied with the MFCC-combustion method to explore the combustion mechanism of the methane-oxygen system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Soo Lim ◽  
Jonathan Vandermause ◽  
Matthijs A. van Spronsen ◽  
Albert Musaelian ◽  
Christopher R. O’Connor ◽  
...  

Restructuring of interface plays a crucial role in materials science and heterogeneous catalysis. Bimetallic systems, in particular, often adopt very different composition and morphology at surfaces compared to the bulk. For the first time, we reveal a detailed atomistic picture of the long-timescale restructuring of Pd deposited on Ag, using microscopy, spectroscopy, and novel simulation methods. Encapsulation of Pd by Ag always precedes layer-by-layer dissolution of Pd, resulting in significant Ag migration out of the surface and extensive vacancy pits. These metastable structures are of vital catalytic importance, as Ag-encapsulated Pd remains much more accessible to reactants than bulk-dissolved Pd. The underlying mechanisms are uncovered by performing fast and large-scale machine-learning molecular dynamics, followed by our newly developed method for complete characterization of atomic surface restructuring events. Our approach is broadly applicable to other multimetallic systems of interest and enables the previously impractical mechanistic investigation of restructuring dynamics.


Author(s):  
Toshihiro Kaneko ◽  
Kenji Yasuoka ◽  
Ayori Mitsutake ◽  
Xiao Cheng Zeng

Multicanonical molecular dynamics simulations are applied, for the first time, to study the liquid-solid and solid-solid transitions in Lennard-Jones (LJ) clusters. The transition temperatures are estimated based on the peak position in the heat capacity versus temperature curve. For LJ31, LJ58 and LJ98, our results on the solid-solid transition temperature are in good agreement with previous ones. For LJ309, the predicted liquid-solid transition temperature is also in agreement with previous result.


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