Locally preferred structure in simple atomic liquids

Details Locally preferred structure in simple atomic liquids Locally preferred structure in simple atomic liquids

2003-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305443v1

J. Chem. Phys. 119, 8069 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

RevTeX 4, 17 pages, 6 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1604380

We propose a method to determine the locally preferred structure of model liquids. This latter is obtained numerically as the global minimum of the effective energy surface of clusters formed by small numbers of particles embedded in a liquid-like environment. The effective energy is the sum of the intra-cluster interaction potential and of an external field that describes the influence of the embedding bulk liquid at a mean-field level. Doing so we minimize the surface effects present in isolated clusters without introducing the full blown geometrical frustration present in bulk condensed phases. We find that the locally preferred structure of the Lennard-Jones liquid is an icosahedron, and that the liquid-like environment only slightly reduces the relative stability of the icosahedral cluster. The influence of the boundary conditions on the nature of the ground-state configuration of Lennard-Jones clusters is also discussed.

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