Photoelasticity of crystalline and amorphous silica from first principles

Details Photoelasticity of crystalline and amorphous silica from first principles Photoelasticity of crystalline and amorphous silica from first principles

2003-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308077v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

ten figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.134202

Based on density-functional perturbation theory we have computed from first principles the photoelastic tensor of few crystalline phases of silica at normal conditions and high pressure (quartz, $\alpha$-cristobalite, $\beta$-cristobalite) and of models of amorphous silica (containig up to 162 atoms), obtained by quenching from the melt in combined classical and Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations. The computational framework has also been checked on the photoelastic tensor of crystalline silicon and MgO as prototypes of covalent and ionic systems. The agreement with available experimental data is good. A phenomenological model suitable to describe the photoelastic properties of different silica polymorphs is devised by fitting on the ab-initio data.

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