Prediction of a Very Hard Triclinic Form of Diamond

1995 ◽  
Vol 408 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Benedek ◽  
M. Facchinetti ◽  
L. Miglio ◽  
S. Serra

AbstractIn a theoretical search for new hypotetical sp3-bonded carbon structure containing five-fold rings as a possible result of fullerene transformation under pressure, we have found a triclinic form of diamond with 16 atoms per unit cell which we called tcl-16. We have calculated the ground state structure, the cohesive energy, the bulk modulus and the electronic density of states by means of tight binding molecular dynamics (TBMD). Finally we have compared the phonon spectra at F to existing Raman data for a non-cubic- phase of diamond.

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Calaminici ◽  
José M. Vásquez-Pérez ◽  
Diego A. Espíndola Velasco

A density functional study was performed for the Rh13 cluster using the linear combination of Gaussian-type orbitals density functional theory (LCGTO-DFT) approach. The calculations employed both the local density approximation (LDA) as well as the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) in combination with a quasi-relativistic effective core potential (QECP). Initial structures for the geometry optimization were taken along Born–Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) trajectories. The BOMD trajectories were performed at different temperatures and considered different potential energy surfaces (PES). As a result, several hundred isomers of the Rh13 cluster in different spin multiplicities were optimized with the aim to determine the lowest energy structures. All geometry optimizations were performed without any symmetry restriction. A vibrational analysis was performed to characterize these isomers. Structural parameters, relative stability energy, harmonic frequencies, binding energy, and most relevant Kohn–Sham (KS) molecular orbitals are reported. The obtained results are compared with available data from the literature. This study predicts a low symmetry biplanarlike structure as the ground-state structure of Rh13 with 11 unpaired electrons. This isomer was first noticed by inspection of first-principle Born–Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations between 300 and 600 K. This represents the most extensive theoretical study on the ground-state structure of the Rh13 cluster and underlines the importance of BOMD simulations to fully explore the PES landscapes of complicated systems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 13882-13894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Katharina Scarbath-Evers ◽  
Sascha Jähnigen ◽  
Hossam Elgabarty ◽  
Chen Song ◽  
Rei Narikawa ◽  
...  

Extensive molecular dynamics simulations reveal two distinct isoforms of the cyanobacteriochrome AnPixJg2 (in its Pr state) with different chromophore conformations, yielding implications for spectroscopic properties.


2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (38) ◽  
pp. 11015-11021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria M. Mendes-Pinto ◽  
Elodie Sansiaume ◽  
Hideki Hashimoto ◽  
Andrew A. Pascal ◽  
Andrew Gall ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (25) ◽  
pp. 3681-3688 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA FREYHULT

We compute the effective potential of SU(2) Yang–Mills theory using the background field method and the Faddeev–Niemi decomposition of the gauge fields. In particular, we find that the potential will depend on the values of two scalar fields in the decomposition and that its structure will give rise to a symmetry breaking.


2012 ◽  
Vol 116 (47) ◽  
pp. 11651-11655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Dongqi Wang ◽  
Yuliang Zhao ◽  
...  

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