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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Glassforming Network Fluids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
Molecular Dynamics simulations of molten oxides, such as fluid silicon dioxide and germanium dioxide, based on simple classical pair potentials, are compared with corresponding Car-Parrinello “ab initio” Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) work and with experiment. It is shown that CPMD provides a significantly better account for properties on short length scales, but classical MD is still indispensable to deal with larger scales of length and time. The behavior of the mean square displacement of the particles as well as the incoherent intermediate scattering function is compatible with a mode coupling description, at least at very high temperatures, while the diffusion constants show a crossover to Arrhenius behavior near the mode coupling critical temperature of these systems. Finally, the results for the network forming liquids are compared to those from simulations of binary metallic alloys such as Al80Ni20, which form a structure similar to densely packed hard spheres.
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1048: Symposium Z – Bulk Metallic Glasses–2007 , 2007 , 1048-Z09-01
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- Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008