Structure and dynamics of l-Ge: Neutron scattering experiments and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

Details Structure and dynamics of l-Ge: Neutron scattering experiments and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations Structure and dynamics of l-Ge: Neutron scattering experiments and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations

2007-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703363v1

Phys. Rev. B 75, 104208 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

11 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104208

We report the first measurements of the dynamics of liquid germanium (l-Ge) by quasi-elastic neutron scattering on time-of-flight and triple-axis spectrometers. These results are compared with simulation data of the structure and dynamics of l-Ge which have been obtained with ab initio density functional theory methods. The simulations accurately reproduce previous results from elastic and inelastic scattering experiments, as well as the q-dependence of the width of the quasi-elastic signal of the new experimental data. In order to understand some special features of the structure of the liquid we have also simulated amorphous Ge. Overall we find that the atomistic model represents accurately the average structure of real l-Ge as well as the time dependent structural fluctuations. The new quasi-elastic neutron scattering data allows us to investigate to what extent simple theoretical models can be used to describe diffusion in l-Ge.

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