Modified Born method for modeling melting temperature using ab initio molecular dynamics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-11-2023
Abstract
The prediction of a material's melting point through computational methods is a very difficult problem due to system size requirements, computational efficiency and accuracy within current models. In this work, we have used a newly developed metric to analyze the trends within the elastic tensor elements as a function of temperature to determine the melting point of Au, Na, Ni, SiO2 and Ti within ±20 K. This work uses our previously developed method of calculating the elastic constants at finite temperatures, as well as leveraging those calculations into a modified Born method for predicting melting point. While this method proves to be computationally expensive, the level of accuracy of these predictions is very difficult to reach using other existing computational methods.
Identifier
85163263920 (Scopus)
Publication Title
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acdb25
e-ISSN
1361648X
ISSN
09538984
PubMed ID
37267997
Issue
36
Volume
35
Recommended Citation
Woodcox, Michael; Young, Joshua; and Smeu, Manuel, "Modified Born method for modeling melting temperature using ab initio molecular dynamics" (2023). Faculty Publications. 1444.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/1444