12 research outputs found
Pressure Calculation in Polar and Charged Systems using Ewald Summation: Results for the Extended Simple Point Charge Model of Water
Ewald summation and physically equivalent methods such as particle-mesh
Ewald, kubic-harmonic expansions, or Lekner sums are commonly used to calculate
long-range electrostatic interactions in computer simulations of polar and
charged substances. The calculation of pressures in such systems is
investigated. We find that the virial and thermodynamic pressures differ
because of the explicit volume dependence of the effective, resummed Ewald
potential. The thermodynamic pressure, obtained from the volume derivative of
the Helmholtz free energy, can be expressed easily for both ionic and rigid
molecular systems. For a system of rigid molecules, the electrostatic energy
and the forces at the atom positions are required, both of which are readily
available in molecular dynamics codes. We then calculate the virial and
thermodynamic pressures for the extended simple point charge (SPC/E) water
model at standard conditions. We find that the thermodynamic pressure exhibits
considerably less system size dependence than the virial pressure. From an
analysis of the cross correlation between the virial and thermodynamic
pressure, we conclude that the thermodynamic pressure should be used to drive
volume fluctuations in constant-pressure simulations.Comment: RevTeX, 19 pages, 2 EPS figures; in press: Journal of Chemical
Physics, 15-August-199
Dynamical Properties of Josephson Junctions Coupled by a Transmission Line
A system composed of two Josephson junctions connected by a transmission line has been studied by means of electronic analog simulation. Under external current bias, the resistive component of the coupling induces frequency locking between the two junctions at commensurate ratios. The resonant modes of the transmission line give rise to steps in the I-V characteristics of the system
Effect of thermal noise on the phase locking of a Josephson fluxon oscillator
The influence of thermal noise on fluxon motion in a long Josephson junction is investigated when the motion is phase locked to an external microwave signal. It is demonstrated that the thermal noise can be treated theoretically within the context of a two-dimensional map that models the dynamics of a single fluxon