Classical and ab-initio molecular dynamic simulation of an amorphous silica surface

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00250-3zbMATH Open0994.82531arXivcond-mat/0108481MaRDI QIDQ696491FDOQ696491

Authors: C. Mischler, Kurt Binder, Walter Kob 

Publication date: 12 September 2002

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the results of a classical molecular dynamic simulation as well as of an ab initio molecular dynamic simulation of an amorphous silica surface. In the case of the classical simulation we use the potential proposed by van Beest et al. (BKS) whereas the ab initio simulation is done with a Car-Parrinello method (CPMD). We find that the surfaces generated by BKS have a higher concentration of defects (e.g. concentration of two-membered rings) than those generated with CPMD. In addition also the distribution functions of the angles and of the distances are different for the short rings. Hence we conclude that whereas the BKS potential is able to reproduce correctly the surface on the length scale beyond approx 5 Angstroems, it is necessary to use an ab initio method to predict reliably the structure at small scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108481

zbMATH Keywords

glass surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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