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Structural Order for One-Scale and Two-Scale Potentials
We perform molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the relationship
between structural order and water-like dynamic and thermodynamic anomalies in
spherically-symmetric potentials having either one or two characteristic length
scales. %The first potential has only one length scale which is the diameter of
the ramp %without the hard core, and the second potential has two length
scales: one is the %diameter of a ramp(softcore) and another one is the
diameter of a %hard core with a ratio of 1.76. Structural order is
characterized by translational and orientational order parameters. %analogous
to those used in previous cases for water and %silica.Only the two-scale ramp
potential exhibits properties %remarkably similar to those found for water and
silica regarding the %relationship between structural order, dynamic anomalies,
and thermodynamic %anomalies. We find that (i) dynamic and thermodynamic
anomalies exist for both one-scale and two-scale ramp potentials, and (ii)
water-like structural order anomalies exist only for the two-scale ramp
potential. Our findings suggest that the water-like relationship between
structural order and anomalies is related to the presence of two different
length scales in the potential.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Graphene Proximity Coupled to an Antiferromagnetic Insulator
We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling
graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken
time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by
performing ab initio calculations for graphene adsorbed on the (111) surface of
BiFeO3. In this case, we find that the proximity-induced exchange field in
graphene is about 70 meV, and that a topologically nontrivial band gap is
opened by Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The size of the gap depends on the
separation between the graphene and the thin film substrate, which can be tuned
experimentally by applying external pressure.Comment: 5pages, 5 figure
Structure of the First and Second Neighbor Shells of Water: Quantitative Relation with Translational and Orientational Order
We perform molecular dynamics simulation of water using the TIP5P model to
quantify structural order in both the first shell (defined by four nearest
neighbors)and second shell (defined by twelve next-nearest neighbors) of a
central water molecule. We find the anomalous decrease of orientational order
upon compression occurs in both shells, but the anomalous decrease of
translational order upon compression occurs {\it mainly in the second shell}.
The decreases of translational and orientational orders upon compression
("structural anomaly") are thus correlated only in the second shell. Our
findings quantitatively confirm the qualitative idea that the thermodynamic,
dynamic and structural anomalies of water are related to changes in the second
shell upon compression.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Linear scaling calculation of maximally-localized Wannier functions with atomic basis set
We have developed a linear scaling algorithm for calculating
maximally-localized Wannier functions (MLWFs) using atomic orbital basis. An
O(N) ground state calculation is carried out to get the density matrix (DM).
Through a projection of the DM onto atomic orbitals and a subsequent O(N)
orthogonalization, we obtain initial orthogonal localized orbitals. These
orbitals can be maximally localized in linear scaling by simple Jacobi sweeps.
Our O(N) method is validated by applying it to water molecule and wurtzite ZnO.
The linear scaling behavior of the new method is demonstrated by computing the
MLWFs of boron nitride nanotubes.Comment: J. Chem. Phys. in press (2006
Electron-Phonon Coupling in Boron-Doped Diamond Superconductor
The electronic structure, lattice dynamics, and electron-phonon coupling of
the boron-doped diamond are investigated using the density functional supercell
method. Our results indicate the boron-doped diamond is a phonon mediated
superconductor, con rming previous theoretical conclusions deduced from the
calculations employing the virtual crystal approximation. We show that the
optical phonon modes involving B vibrations play an important role in the
electron-phonon coupling. Di erent from previous theoretical results, our
calculated electron-phonon coupling constant is 0.39 and the estimated
superconducting transition temperature Tc is 4.4 K for the boron doped diamond
with 2.78% boron content using the Coulomb pseudopotential \mu*= 0.10, in
excellent agreement with the experimental result.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by PR
Oxidation States of Graphene: Insights from Computational Spectroscopy
When it is oxidized, graphite can be easily exfoliated forming graphene oxide
(GO). GO is a critical intermediate for massive production of graphene, and it
is also an important material with various application potentials. With many
different oxidation species randomly distributed on the basal plane, GO has a
complicated nonstoichiometric atomic structure that is still not well
understood in spite of of intensive studies involving many experimental
techniques. Controversies often exist in experimental data interpretation. We
report here a first principles study on binding energy of carbon 1s orbital in
GO. The calculated results can be well used to interpret experimental X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data and provide a unified spectral
assignment. Based on the first principles understanding of XPS, a GO structure
model containing new oxidation species epoxy pair and epoxy-hydroxy pair is
proposed. Our results demonstrate that first principles computational
spectroscopy provides a powerful means to investigate GO structure.Comment: accepted by J. Chem. Phy
Geometrical, electronic and magnetic properties of NaCoO from first principles
We report a first-principles projector augmented wave (PAW) study on
NaCoO. With the sodium ion ordered insulating phase being
identified in experiments, pure density functional calculations fail to predict
an insulating ground state, which indicates that Na ordering alone can not
produce accompanying Co charge ordering, if additional correlation is not
properly considered. At this level of theory, the most stable phase presents
ferromagnetic ordering within the CoO layer and antiferromagnetic coupling
between these layers. When the on-site Coulomb interaction for Co 3d orbitals
is included by an additional Hubbard parameter , charge ordered insulating
ground state can be obtained. The effect of on-site interaction magnitude on
electronic structure is studied. At a moderate value of (4.0 eV for
example), the ground state is antiferromagnetic, with a Co magnetic
moment about 1.0 and a magnetic energy of 0.12 eV/Co. The
rehybridization process is also studied in the DFT+U point of view.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figure
A Family of Tunable Spherically-Symmetric Potentials that Span the Range from Hard Spheres to Water-like Behavior
We investigate the equation of state, diffusion coefficient, and structural
order of a family of spherically-symmetric potentials consisting of a hard core
and a linear repulsive ramp. This generic potential has two characteristic
length scales: the hard and soft core diameters. The family of potentials is
generated by varying their ratio, . We find negative thermal expansion
(thermodynamic anomaly) and an increase of the diffusion coefficient upon
isothermal compression (dynamic anomaly) for . As in water,
the regions where these anomalies occur are nested domes in the () or
() planes, with the thermodynamic anomaly dome contained entirely within
the dynamic anomaly dome. We calculate translational and orientational order
parameters ( and ), and project equilibrium state points onto the () plane, or order map. The order map evolves from water-like behavior to
hard-sphere-like behavior upon varying between 4/7 and 6/7. Thus, we
traverse the range of liquid behavior encompassed by hard spheres ()
and water-like () with a family of tunable
spherically-symmetric potentials by simply varying the ratio of hard to
soft-core diameters. Although dynamic and thermodynamic anomalies occur almost
across the entire range , water-like structural anomalies
(i.e., decrease in both and upon compression and strictly correlated
and in the anomalous region) occur only around .
Water-like anomalies in structure, dynamics and thermodynamics arise solely due
to the existence of two length scales, orientation-dependent interactions being
absent by design.Comment: total 21 pages, 6 figure
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