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Annaberdiyev A, Ganesh P, Krogel JT. Enhanced Twist-Averaging Technique for Magnetic Metals: Applications Using Quantum Monte Carlo. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:2786-2797. [PMID: 38498904 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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We propose an improved twist-averaging (TA) scheme for quantum Monte Carlo methods that use converged Kohn-Sham or Hartree-Fock orbitals as the reference. This TA technique is tailored to sample the Brillouin zone of magnetic metals, although it naturally extends to nonmagnetic (NM) conducting systems. The proposed scheme aims to reproduce the reference magnetization and achieves charge neutrality by construction, thus avoiding the large energy fluctuations and the postprocessing needed to correct the energies. It shows the most robust convergence of total energy and magnetism to the thermodynamic limit (TDL) when compared to four other TA schemes. Diffusion Monte Carlo applications are shown on NM Al and ferromagnetic α-Fe. The cohesive energy of Al in the TDL shows an excellent agreement with the experimental result. Furthermore, the magnetic moments in α-Fe exhibit rapid convergence with an increasing number of twists.
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- Abdulgani Annaberdiyev
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Fairushin II, Mokshin AV. Collective ion dynamics in Coulomb one-component plasmas within the self-consistent relaxation theory. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:015206. [PMID: 37583226 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.015206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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In this paper, we present the theoretical formalism describing the collective ion dynamics of the nonideal Coulomb classical one-component plasmas on the basis of the self-consistent relaxation theory. The theory is adapted to account for correlations between the frequency relaxation parameters that characterize the three- and four-particle dynamics and the parameters associated with the two-particle dynamics. The dynamic structure factor spectra and dispersion characteristics calculated for a wide range of wave numbers are in agreement with the molecular dynamics simulation data and the results obtained with the theory of the frequency moments. The proposed formalism reproduces all the features inherent to the Coulomb one-component plasmas and requires only knowledge of the coupling parameter and the information about the structure.
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- Ilnaz I Fairushin
- Department of Computational Physics, Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, 420008 Kazan, Russia
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- Department of Computational Physics, Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, 420008 Kazan, Russia
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Blouin S, Daligault J. Direct evaluation of the phase diagrams of dense multicomponent plasmas by integration of the Clapeyron equations. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:043204. [PMID: 34005919 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.043204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Accurate phase diagrams of multicomponent plasmas are required for the modeling of dense stellar plasmas, such as those found in the cores of white dwarf stars and the crusts of neutron stars. Those phase diagrams have been computed using a variety of standard techniques, which suffer from physical and computational limitations. Here we present an efficient and accurate method that overcomes the drawbacks of previously used approaches. In particular, finite-size effects are avoided as each phase is calculated separately; the plasma electrons and volume changes are explicitly taken into account; and arbitrary analytic fits to simulation data as well as particle insertions are avoided. Furthermore, no simulations at "uninteresting" state conditions, i.e., away from the phase coexistence curves, are required, which improves the efficiency of the technique. The method consists of an adaptation of the so-called Gibbs-Duhem integration approach to electron-ion plasmas, where the coexistence curve is determined by direct numerical integration of its underlying Clapeyron equation. The thermodynamics properties of the coexisting phases are evaluated separately using Monte Carlo simulations in the isobaric semigrand canonical ensemble (NPTΔμ). We describe this Monte Carlo-based Clapeyron integration method, including its basic physical and numerical principles, our extension to electron-ion plasmas, and our numerical implementation. We illustrate its applicability and benefits with the calculation of the melting curve of dense carbon-oxygen plasmas under conditions relevant for the cores of white dwarf stars and provide analytic fits to implement this new melting curve in white dwarf models. While this work focuses on the liquid-solid phase boundary of dense two-component plasmas, a wider range of physical systems and phase boundaries are within the scope of the Clapeyron integration method, which had until now only been applied to simple model systems of neutral particles.
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- Simon Blouin
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Dharuman G, Stanton LG, Glosli JN, Murillo MS. A generalized Ewald decomposition for screened Coulomb interactions. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:024112. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4973842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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- Gautham Dharuman
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Thompson JP, Sanchez IC. System-size effects in ionic fluids under periodic boundary conditions. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:214103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4968040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Jeff P. Thompson
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C0400, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C0400, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, USA
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Jabbari-Farouji S, Weis JJ, Davidson P, Levitz P, Trizac E. Interplay of anisotropy in shape and interactions in charged platelet suspensions. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:224510. [PMID: 25494763 DOI: 10.1063/1.4903045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Motivated by the intriguing phase behavior of charged colloidal platelets, we investigate the structure and dynamics of charged repulsive disks by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The electrostatic interactions are taken into account through an effective two-body potential, obtained within the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann formalism, which has the form of anisotropic screened Coulomb potential. Recently, we showed that the original intrinsic anisotropy of the electrostatic potential in competition with excluded volume effects leads to a rich phase behavior that not only includes various liquid-crystalline phases but also predicts the existence of novel structures composed of alternating nematic-antinematic sheets. Here, we examine the structural and dynamical signatures of each of the observed structures for both translational and rotational degrees of freedom. Finally, we discuss the influence of effective charge value and our results in relation to experimental findings on charged platelet suspensions.
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- Sara Jabbari-Farouji
- LPTMS, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, UMR8626, Bat. 100, 91405 Orsay, France and Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, UMR 5588, F-38041 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8627 Bâtiment 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, UMR 8502 Bâtiment 510, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire PECSA, UMR 7195, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case Courrier 51, 4 place Jussieu, 72522 Paris Cedex 5, France
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- LPTMS, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, UMR8626, Bat. 100, 91405 Orsay, France
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On phase behavior and dynamical signatures of charged colloidal platelets. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3559. [PMID: 24352252 PMCID: PMC6506449 DOI: 10.1038/srep03559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 12/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Charged platelet suspensions, such as swelling clays, disc-like mineral crystallites or exfoliated nanosheets are ubiquitous in nature. Their phase behaviours are nevertheless still poorly understood: while some clay suspensions form arrested states at low densities, others exhibit an equilibrium isotropic-nematic transition at moderate densities. These observations raise fundamental questions about the influence of electrostatic interactions on the isotropic-nematic transition and the organisation of charged platelets. We investigate the competition between anisotropic excluded-volume and repulsive electrostatic interactions in suspensions of charged colloidal discs, by means of Monte-Carlo simulations and characterization of the dynamics of the structures. We show that the original intrinsic anisotropy of the electrostatic potential between charged platelets not only rationalizes generic features of the complex phase diagram of charged colloidal platelets such as Gibbsite and Beidellite clays, but also predicts the existence of novel structures. Furthermore, we find evidences of a strong slowing down of the dynamics upon increasing density.
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Osychenko O, Astrakharchik G, Boronat J. Ewald method for polytropic potentials in arbitrary dimensionality. Mol Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2011.640291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Caillol JM, Verso FL, Schöll-Paschinger E, Weis JJ. Liquid–vapour transition of the long range Yukawa fluid. Mol Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/00268970701420524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Mazars M. Yukawa potentials in systems with partial periodic boundary conditions. I. Ewald sums for quasi-two-dimensional systems. Mol Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/00268970701481716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Johnson RE, Ranganathan S. Generalized approach to Ewald sums. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 75:056706. [PMID: 17677197 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.056706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Revised: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We derive Ewald sum formulas for potential energy and force for a system of point charges interacting with an arbitrary, long-range central potential. The system is made neutral by a uniform background of opposite charge interacting with the same potential. These formulas can be readily used in computer numerical simulations of model physical systems. In particular, expressions for the potential energy and the force have been obtained in both two and three dimensions for Coulomb and other power-law potentials, Yukawa systems, and for an electronic bilayer. We discuss numerical results and their accuracy for various systems and, based on our analysis, suggest values to be used for the parameters that appear in the Ewald sums.
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- R E Johnson
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7K 7B4
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Mazars M. Ewald sums for Yukawa potentials in quasi-two-dimensional systems. J Chem Phys 2007; 126:056101. [PMID: 17302504 DOI: 10.1063/1.2431371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Martial Mazars
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (UMR 8627), Université de Paris XI, Bâtiment 210, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
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Salin G, Gilles D. Transport coefficients for binary Yukawa mixtures: theory and molecular dynamic simulations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/39/17/s31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Giacometti A, Gazzillo D, Pastore G, Das TK. Numerical study of a binary Yukawa model in regimes characteristic of globular proteins in solutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 71:031108. [PMID: 15903407 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.71.031108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The main goal of this paper is to assess the limits of validity, in the regime of low concentration and strong Coulomb coupling (high molecular charges), of a simple perturbative approximation to the radial distribution functions (RDF's), based upon a low-density expansion of the potential of mean force and proposed to describe protein-protein interactions in a recent small-angle-scattering (SAS) experimental study. A highly simplified Yukawa (screened Coulomb) model of monomers and dimers of a charged globular protein (beta-lactoglobulin) in solution is considered. We test the accuracy of the RDF approximation, as a necessary complementary part of the previous experimental investigation, by comparison with the fluid structure predicted by approximate integral equations and exact Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. In the MC calculations, an Ewald construction for Yukawa potentials has been used to take into account the long-range part of the interactions in the weakly screened cases. Our results confirm that the perturbative first-order approximation is valid for this system even at strong Coulomb coupling, provided that the screening is not too weak (i.e., for Debye length smaller than monomer radius). A comparison of the MC results with integral equation calculations shows that both the hypernetted-chain (HNC) and Percus-Yevick closures have a satisfactory behavior under these regimes, with the HNC being superior throughout. The relevance of our findings for interpreting SAS results is also discussed.
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- Achille Giacometti
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica, Università di Venezia, Italy
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Schöll-Paschinger E, Levesque D, Weis JJ, Kahl G. Phase diagram of a binary symmetric hard-core Yukawa mixture. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:024507. [PMID: 15638598 DOI: 10.1063/1.1829632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We assess the accuracy of the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation for a binary symmetric hard-core Yukawa mixture by comparison with Monte Carlo simulations of the phase diagrams obtained for different choices of the ratio alpha of the unlike-to-like interactions. In particular, from the results obtained at alpha=0.75 we find evidence for a critical endpoint in contrast to recent studies based on integral equation and hierarchical reference theories. The variation of the phase diagrams with range of the Yukawa potential is investigated.
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Hynninen AP, Dijkstra M. Phase diagrams of hard-core repulsive Yukawa particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2003; 68:021407. [PMID: 14524973 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.68.021407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We determine the phase behavior of hard spheres interacting with repulsive Yukawa (screened Coulomb) interaction using computer simulations. We study the effect of the hard-core diameter on the phase behavior of repulsive Yukawa particles by comparing our phase diagrams with that of repulsive point Yukawa particles. We show that for sufficiently high contact values of the pair potential (betaepsilon=20, 39, 81, and higher), the fluid-face-centered-cubic (fcc) solid, at high screening, the fluid-body-centered-cubic (bcc) solid and the bcc-fcc coexistence for packing fractions eta less, similar 0.5 are well described by the phase boundaries of point Yukawa particles, by employing a mapping of the point Yukawa system onto a hard-core repulsive Yukawa system. While the bcc-fcc coexistence is well described by the point Yukawa limit for eta<0.5, we find a deviation at higher eta as the hard-core repulsion favors the fcc solid for eta>/=0.5, independent of the screening. Consequently, a second triple point appears in the phase diagram in the weak screening regime. In addition, we find that all the phase coexistence regions in our phase diagrams for hard-core repulsive Yukawa system are very narrow, i.e., a small density jump in the coexisting phases.
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- Antti-Pekka Hynninen
- Debye Institute, Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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LÓPEZ-LEMUS J, ALEJANDRE J. Thermodynamic and transport properties of simple fluids using lattice sums: bulk phases and liquid-vapour interface. Mol Phys 2002. [DOI: 10.1080/00268970210121669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Salin G, Caillol JM. Transport coefficients of the Yukawa one-component plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002; 88:065002. [PMID: 11863815 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.065002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present equilibrium molecular-dynamics computations of the thermal conductivity and the two viscosities of the Yukawa one-component plasma. The simulations were performed within periodic boundary conditions, and Ewald sums were implemented for the potentials, the forces, and for all the currents which enter the Kubo formulas. For large values of the screening parameter, our estimates of the shear viscosity and the thermal conductivity are in good agreement with the predictions of the Chapman-Enskog theory.
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- Gwenaël Salin
- MAPMO-CNRS (UMR 6628), Département de Mathématiques, Université d'Orléans, BP 6759, 45067 Orléans Cedex, France.
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Clérouin J, Dufrêche JF. Ab initio study of deuterium in the dissociating regime: sound speed and transport properties. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:066406. [PMID: 11736281 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.066406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The sound speed and the transport properties of dense hydrogen (deuterium) are computed from local spin-density approximation molecular-dynamics simulations in the dissociating regime. The sound speed c(s) is evaluated from the thermodynamical differentiation of the equation of state in the molecular phase and is in very good agreement with recent experiments. The diffusion constant D and the viscosity eta are extracted from simulations performed at V=6, 4, and 2.7 cm(3)/mole, corresponding, respectively, for deuterium at rho=0.672, 1.0, and 1.5 g/cm(3) in a range of temperatures 1000 K<T<50,000 K. In the dissociated regime, the diffusion coefficient is well predicted by one-component plasma formulas using a renormalized coupling parameter recently proposed by Murillo [M. S. Murillo, Phys. Rev. B 62, 4115 (2000)]. The behavior of the shear viscosity in the dissociated regime is more complex and exhibits a crossover between atomic and screened plasma formulation. A comparison with recent molecular-dynamics simulations of Yukawas systems shows that the inverse of the screening length must lie between 1 and 2, in nearest-neighbor radius units, as suggested by the results on the diffusion.
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- J Clérouin
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/DIF, Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, Boîte Postale 12, 91680 Bruyères le Châtel Cedex, France.
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