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From Electronic Structure To Thermodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Giovanni B. Bachelet
Giovanni B. Bachelet*
Affiliation:
Centro Studi del CNR e Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita’ di Trento, 1-38050 POVO TN, Italy
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Abstract

A simple way to extend the remarkable results of Density Functional calculations to finite-temperature properties of materials is the quasi-harmonic theory of Lattice Dynamics. In this framework a thermodynamically consistent theory needs the complete phonon spectrum for a large periodic system (30–100 atoms/cell) at many different volumes, which poses severe practical limitations. In this paper I present the application to a semiconducting system of a method recently proposed by Bachelet and De Lorenzi to overcome these limitations. Based on low-temperature Molecular-Dynamics trajectories (now possible from first principles for semiconducting systems according to the method of Car and Parrinello), the method is shown to provide accurate dynamical matrices for an 8-atom silicon supercell. Such a successful, preliminary test, together with the fact that for larger and/or lower-symmetry systems the computational effort required by the “trajectory approach” is lower than traditional frozen-phonon or force-constant techniques, suggests its use in the determination of dynamical matrices of larger defect or amorphous systems, and thus in the study of their thermodynamics from first principles.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 104 , 1987 , 13
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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