ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
In order to study the properties of the short-range order in simple liquids, a "moving average filter'' is applied to the positions and velocities obtained from molecular dynamics simulations of L-J systems, in order to reduce the thermal motions. The fictitious systems that are obtained allow a better analysis, not only of the underlying structure, but also of the time-dependent low-frequency properties, such as diffusive motions. From the analysis of the correlation radial function g(r) and the recently proposed [S. Mazur, J. Chem. Phys. 97, 9276 (1992)] "neighborship distributions,'' P(n,r), it is shown that the face-centered-cubic lattice is inadequate to model the local order in the liquid state. To study the nature of the diffusive motions, a spatial-dependent velocity correlation function is computed. It shows significant positive values for the filtered systems. This suggests a cooperative mechanism for diffusion. However, it seems that the collective motions do not involve large clusters, but rather small clusters and linear "chains'' of molecules. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.468664
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