Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2012-04-06
Theor. Chem. Acc. 131, 1143 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
19 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00214-012-1143-9
Realistic modeling of ionic systems necessitates taking explicitly account of many-body effects. In molecular dynamics simulations, it is possible to introduce explicitly these effects through the use of additional degrees of freedom. Here we present two models: The first one only includes dipole polarization effect, while the second also accounts for quadrupole polarization as well as the effects of compression and deformation of an ion by its immediate coordination environment. All the parameters involved in these models are extracted from first-principles density functional theory calculations. This step is routinely done through an extended force-matching procedure, which has proven to be very succesfull for molten oxides and molten fluorides. Recent developments based on the use of localized orbitals can be used to complement the force-matching procedure by allowing for the direct calculations of several parameters such as the individual polarizabilities.
Jahn Sandro
Madden Paul A.
Rotenberg Benjamin
Salanne Mathieu
Simon Christian
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