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Menahem Krief1, Yinon Ashkenazy1
1Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel.
Abstract:
A method for the calculation of elastic constants in the NVT ensamble using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with a realistic many-body embedded-atom-model (EAM) potential is studied in detail. It is shown that, in such NVT MD simulations, the evaluation of elastic constants is robust and accurate because it gives the elastic tensor in a single simulation which converges using a small number of time steps and particles. These results highlight the applicability of this method in (i) the calculation of local elastic constants of nonhomogeneous crystalline materials and (ii) the calibration of interatomic potentials, as a fast and accurate alternative to the common method of explicit deformation, which requires a set of consistent simulations at different conditions. The method is demonstrated for the calculation of the elastic constants of copper in the temperature range of 0-1000 K, and results agree with the target values used for the potential calibration. The various contributions to the values of the elastic constants, namely, the Born, stress fluctuation, and ideal gas terms, are studied as a function of temperature.
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