Title
Piezoelectric coefficients by molecular dynamics simulations in the constant stress ensemble: A case study of quartz
Abstract
Piezoelectric (strain) coefficients dij of quartz are calculated in terms of molecular dynamics as a function of pressure and temperature. We review the necessary formulas for the computation of electromechanical materials coefficients obtained at constant stress and temperature, and discuss how to overcome complications of the definition of polarization variations due to fluctuating box geometries. A method is employed suppressing significantly stochastic fluctuations of the estimators for piezoelectric coefficients. A recently suggested force field for the simulation of SiO2 reproduces available experimental data quite accurately. Predictions are made for the pressure dependence of dij of quartz.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.cpc.2005.07.012
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
77.65.-j,02.70.Ns,62.20.Dc
Force field (physics),Statistical physics,Experimental data,Polarization (waves),Molecular dynamics,Quartz,Mathematics,Piezoelectricity,Estimator,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
174
1
0010-4655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Herzbach100.34
Martin H. Müser232.15