FEcMD: A multi-physics and multi-scale computational program for dynamic coupling molecular dynamics simulations with transient electric field and heat conduction in metal nanostructures

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Autori principali: Xiao, Bing, Li, Nan, Kong, Wenqian, Chu, Rui, Zhang, Hongyu, Meng, Guodong, Wu, Kai, Cheng, Yonghong
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author Xiao, Bing
Li, Nan
Kong, Wenqian
Chu, Rui
Zhang, Hongyu
Meng, Guodong
Wu, Kai
Cheng, Yonghong
author_facet Xiao, Bing
Li, Nan
Kong, Wenqian
Chu, Rui
Zhang, Hongyu
Meng, Guodong
Wu, Kai
Cheng, Yonghong
contents Field emission coupled with molecular dynamics simulation (FEcMD) software package is a computational tool for studying atomic structure evolution, structural deformation, phase transitions, recrystallization as well as electron emission characteristics of micro- and nano-protrusions and nanowires consisting of elemental metals or multi-component alloys by means of multi-physics and multi-scale methodology. Current implementations of molecular dynamics simulation coupled with multi-scale electrodynamics (ED) and heat conduction (HC) in FEcMD program are advanced mainly in the two aspects as follows. In electrodynamics, the FEcMD program incorporates the space charge interactions (space charge potential and exchange-correlation effects) in the self-consistent solved Poisson-Schrödinger equation with Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin-Jeffreys (WKBJ) approximation to evaluate the field emission current density and the related resistive heating process more reliably for nanowires or nano-protrusions especially for nano-gaps between two metal electrodes. Meanwhile, the two-temperature heat conduction model is implemented in electrodynamics coupled with molecular dynamics simulations (ED-MD), providing more dedicated descriptions for the hierarchical electron-phonon two-channel heat conduction mechanism and the temperature evolutions of electron and phonon subsystems under the radiofrequency (RF) or pulse electric fields. Benchmark tests are performed for some key implementations in FEcMD software to validate the numerical results, and also to demonstrate the use of program to study the atomic structure evolution of metal nano-structures under electric field and heating processes.
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spellingShingle FEcMD: A multi-physics and multi-scale computational program for dynamic coupling molecular dynamics simulations with transient electric field and heat conduction in metal nanostructures
Xiao, Bing
Li, Nan
Kong, Wenqian
Chu, Rui
Zhang, Hongyu
Meng, Guodong
Wu, Kai
Cheng, Yonghong
Computational Physics
Field emission coupled with molecular dynamics simulation (FEcMD) software package is a computational tool for studying atomic structure evolution, structural deformation, phase transitions, recrystallization as well as electron emission characteristics of micro- and nano-protrusions and nanowires consisting of elemental metals or multi-component alloys by means of multi-physics and multi-scale methodology. Current implementations of molecular dynamics simulation coupled with multi-scale electrodynamics (ED) and heat conduction (HC) in FEcMD program are advanced mainly in the two aspects as follows. In electrodynamics, the FEcMD program incorporates the space charge interactions (space charge potential and exchange-correlation effects) in the self-consistent solved Poisson-Schrödinger equation with Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin-Jeffreys (WKBJ) approximation to evaluate the field emission current density and the related resistive heating process more reliably for nanowires or nano-protrusions especially for nano-gaps between two metal electrodes. Meanwhile, the two-temperature heat conduction model is implemented in electrodynamics coupled with molecular dynamics simulations (ED-MD), providing more dedicated descriptions for the hierarchical electron-phonon two-channel heat conduction mechanism and the temperature evolutions of electron and phonon subsystems under the radiofrequency (RF) or pulse electric fields. Benchmark tests are performed for some key implementations in FEcMD software to validate the numerical results, and also to demonstrate the use of program to study the atomic structure evolution of metal nano-structures under electric field and heating processes.
title FEcMD: A multi-physics and multi-scale computational program for dynamic coupling molecular dynamics simulations with transient electric field and heat conduction in metal nanostructures
topic Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14712