Capillary Waves at Liquid/Vapor Interfaces: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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1999-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907177v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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10.1103/PhysRevE.60.6708

Evidence for capillary waves at a liquid/vapor interface are presented from extensive molecular dynamics simulations of a system containing up to 1.24 million Lennard-Jones particles. Careful measurements show that the total interfacial width depends logarithmically on $L_\parallel$, the length of the simulation cell parallel to the interface, as predicted theoretically. The strength of the divergence of the interfacial width on $L_\parallel$ depends inversely on the surface tension $\gamma$. This allows us to measure $\gamma$ two ways since $\gamma$ can also be obtained from the difference in the pressure parallel and perpendicular to the interface. These two independent measures of $\gamma$ agree provided that the interfacial order parameter profile is fit to an error function and not a hyperbolic tangent, as often assumed. We explore why these two common fitting functions give different results for $\gamma$.

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