A New Technique for Modelling the Structure of Expanded Liquid Metals Along the Liquid-Vapour Coexistence Curve
作者:
T. Arai,
R.L. McGreevy,
期刊:
Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 33,
issue 4
页码: 199-212
ISSN:0031-9104
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/00319109608039822
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Expanded liquid;caesium;correlated percolation;structure factor;coordination number
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
We have developed a simple technique for modelling the structure of expanded liquid metals along the liquid vapour coexistence curve which may be characterised as a ‘correlated percolation’ method. Starting from a model for the liquid at high density, e.g. near the triple point, obtained either by molecular dynamics simulation or reverse Monte Carlo modelling, we keep the size of the model and the atomic positions fixed and remove atoms, according to criteria which depend on the coordination number distribution, until the required lower density, corresponding to a higher temperature, is reached. Small random Gaussian displacements are then added to the position of each atom to account for the increased temperature. The structure factor of the resulting model is quite close to that measured experimentally. Changes in the structure factor as the liquid expands can thus be separated into the effects of density fluctuations and temperature (or entropy).
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