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Phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard-Jones solid

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dc.contributor ERC - European Research Council
dc.contributor Wiebe, Heather
dc.creator Wiebe, Heather
dc.creator Underwood, Tom
dc.creator Ackland, Graeme J.
dc.date 2020-06-10T16:16:22Z
dc.date 2020-06-10T16:16:22Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:53:17Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:53:17Z
dc.identifier Wiebe, Heather; Underwood, Tom; Ackland, Graeme J.. (2020). Phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard-Jones solid, [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Physics & Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2846.
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10283/3658
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2846
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/244097
dc.description The Lennard-Jones potential is perhaps one of the most widely-used models for the interaction of uncharged particles, such as noble gas solids. The phase diagram of the classical LJ solid is known to exhibit transitions between hcp and fcc phases. However, the phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard Jones solid remains unknown. Thermodynamic integration based on path integral molecular dynamics and lattice dynamics calculations are used to study the phase stability of the hcp and fcc Lennard Jones solids. The hcp phase is shown to be stabilized by quantum effects in PIMD while fcc is shown to be favoured by lattice dynamics, which suggests a possible re-entrant low pressure hcp phase for highly quantum systems. Implications for the phase stability of noble gas solids are discussed. For parameters equating to Helium, the expansion due to zero-point vibrations is associated with quantum melting: neither crystal structure is stable at zero pressure. This dataset contains input files and run scripts for the quasiharmonic calculations using GULP, and the PIMD calculations using i-PI and LAMMPS. See README.txt files within each archive for specific details on how to run and analyze the calculations.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher University of Edinburgh. School of Physics & Astronomy
dc.relation https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07672
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.subject Quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics
dc.subject Path integral molecular dynamics
dc.subject Phase transitions
dc.subject Crystal structure
dc.subject Free energy
dc.subject Physical Sciences
dc.title Phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard-Jones solid
dc.title Input files and data for "Phase behaviour of the quantum Lennard-Jones solid"
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