Title
Three-dimensional interactive Molecular Dynamics program for the study of defect dynamics in crystals
Abstract
The study of crystal defects and the complex processes underlying their formation and time evolution has motivated the development of the program ALINE for interactive molecular dynamics experiments. This program couples a molecular dynamics code to a Graphical User Interface and runs on a UNIX-X11 Window System platform with the MOTIF library, which is contained in many standard Linux releases. ALINE is written in C, thus giving the user the possibility to modify the source code, and, at the same time, provides an effective and user-friendly framework for numerical experiments, in which the main parameters can be interactively varied and the system visualized in various ways. We illustrate the main features of the program through some examples of detection and dynamical tracking of point-defects, linear defects, and planar defects, such as stacking faults in lattice-mismatched heterostructures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.cpc.2006.07.019
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
05.10.Gg,89.75.Kd
Mathematical optimization,Computer performance,Computer simulation,Identifier,Source code,Visualization,Computer science,Unix,Theoretical computer science,Graphical user interface,Test data,Computer engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
176
1
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Patriarca1101.89
A. Kuronen200.34
M. Robles300.34
K. Kaski4377.99