Predicting Crystal Structures: The Parrinello-Rahman Method Revisited
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- 20 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (7) , 075503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.075503
Abstract
By suitably adapting a recent approach [A. Laio and M. Parrinello, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 12 562 (2002)] we develop a powerful molecular dynamics method for the study of pressure-induced structural transformations. We use the edges of the simulation cell as collective variables and define a metadynamics that drives the system away from the local minimum towards a new crystal structure. In contrast to the Parrinello-Rahman method, our approach shows no hysteresis, and crystal structure transformations can occur at the equilibrium pressure. We illustrate the power of the method by studying the pressure-induced diamond to simple hexagonal phase transition in a model of silicon.Keywords
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