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arXiv 0812.2317cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.stat-mech
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铁电晶体Landau自由能的热力学积分法

Landau free energy of ferroelectric crystals by thermodynamic integration

Gregory Geneste

摘要:

使用基于Zhong,Vanderbilt和Rabe [Phys. Rev. Lett. { \bf 73},1861(1994)](并且仅适用于第一性原理计算),将热力学积分技术应用于钛酸钡。它允许计算具有不同偏振的宏观状态之间的自由能的差异,从作用在局部模式上的力的热平均值。这是通过在固定极化的约束下进行分子动力学来实现的。朗道自由能因此被解释为平均力的势。热力学积分直接给出了钛酸钡的朗道自由能作为$\vec P$的函数的访问(数值),而无需对其解析形式进行任何假设。这种技术主要用于计算化学,允许在现象学理论和原子尺度模拟之间建立直接联系。并以BaTiO $_3$为例进行了验证。的结果进行比较,以提供唯象的文学潜力。

英文摘要:

Using Molecular Dynamics simulations based on the effective hamiltonian developed by Zhong, Vanderbilt and Rabe [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 73}, 1861 (1994)] (and fitted on first-principles calculations only), the technique of the thermodynamic integration is applied to barium titanate. It allows to compute the difference of free energy between macroscopic states with different polarizations, from the thermal averages of the forces acting on the local modes. This is achieved by performing molecular dynamics under the constraint of fixed polarization. The Landau free energy is thus interpreted as a potential of mean force. The thermodynamic integration directly gives access (numerically) to the Landau free energy of barium titanate as a function of $\vec P$, without any assumption on its analytical form. This technique, mainly used in computational chemistry, allows to make a direct connection between phenomenological theories and atomic-scale simulations. It is applied and validated to the case of BaTiO$_3$ under fixed volume. The results are compared to available phenomenological potentials of the litterature.

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