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Higher-order symplectic integration in Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics
Anders Odell1, Anna Delin, Börje Johansson
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Materials Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-100 44, Sweden. odell@mse.kth.se
Abstract:
The extended Lagrangian formulation of time-reversible Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics [A. M. N. Niklasson, C. J. Tymczak, and M. Challacombe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 123004 (2008); Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123001 (2006)] enables the use of geometric integrators in the propagation of both the nuclear and the electronic degrees of freedom on the Born-Oppenheimer potential energy surface. Different symplectic integrators up to the sixth order have been adapted and optimized in the framework of ab initio self-consistent-field theory. It is shown how the accuracy can be significantly improved compared to a conventional Verlet integration at the same level of computational cost, in particular, for the case of very high accuracy requirements.
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