ABINITIO MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS - ANALYTICALLY CONTINUED ENERGY FUNCTIONALS AND INSIGHTS INTO ITERATIVE SOLUTIONS

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作者
ARIAS, TA [1 ]
PAYNE, MC [1 ]
JOANNOPOULOS, JD [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CAMBRIDGE,CAVENDISH LAB,CAMBRIDGE CB3 0HE,ENGLAND
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1077
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 [物理学];
摘要
We present a new method for performing finite-temperature ab initio total-energy calculations at long length scales, which we demonstrate with a dynamics calculation of 50-angstrom-long phonon modes in silicon. The method involves both a prescription for the analytic continuation of traditional fermionic energy functionals into the space of nonorthonormal single-particle orbitals (speeding convergence to the minimum) and insights into the common computational physics problem of solving by iterative refinement for the state of a complex system as a function of a continuous external parameter.
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页码:1077 / 1080
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