Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
The Journal of Chemical Physics
87 (1987), S. 1245-1247
ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
This paper derives a method for calculation of the elastic constants of a solid from computer simulation data on atomic displacement correlations at long range. It is shown that principal axes of the elastic constant tensor can be found from a Fourier analysis of the second-rank tensor of displacement correlations together with a numerical search in the reciprocal Fourier k space. The full fourth-rank tensor of elastic constants then can be obtained by rotations after the principal values are calculated. The method is not limited to special crystal symmetries, to pair-decomposable forces, to low temperatures, to thermodynamic states of only slight distortion from the minimum energy configuration, or to harmonic systems.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.453305
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