Residence time and density distribution of silver ions inα-Ag2Te by molecular-dynamics simulation

Abstract
A silver-ion diffusion in α-Ag2Te is investigated by a molecular-dynamics method introducing a polyhedron analysis. The microscopic picture for the diffusion process of silver ions is obtained by studying the ratio of the residence time of silver ions in octahedra, τO, to that in tetrahedra, τT. The temperature dependence of τO/τT is expressed as the Arrhenius formula with an activation energy of 0.18 eV.