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Quantum Chemical Molecular Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

A. Caro  and
M. Victoria
A. Caro
Affiliation:
Paul Scherrer Institute 5303 Wuerenlingen -, Switzerland
M. Victoria
Affiliation:
Permanent address: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina. On leave of absence from Centro Atomico Bariloche, 8400 Bariloche, Argentina
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Abstract

We propose a simple electronic model for the cohesive energy of metals which explicitely considers eigenfunctions and eigenvectors in a single-particle LCAO approach. From them, forces are obtained to perform molecular dinamics or static relaxation. As a first application we compare the model predictions to full many-body ab-initio and Embedded Atom Model calculations of structure and energetics of small metallic clusters. Adventages and limitations of this approach as well as size restrictions are discussed.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 141: Symposium T – Atomic Scale Calculations in Materials Science , 1988 , 19
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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