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ElasT: A toolkit for thermoelastic calculations

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Yunguo Li *
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Lidunka Vočadlo
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John P. Brodholt
DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108280delete
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A toolkit that simplifies the calculation of solid-state elastic properties at finite temperatures to a one-shot task is developed. We report the improvement and automation of the stress-strain method, which relies on the averaged stresses from ab initio or classical calculations. Stresses obtained from strained crystal lattices at zero and finite temperatures can be directly extracted to fit the strain-stress relationship and get the elastic constants. Furthermore, the finite-temperature elastic constants can also be obtained by solving a system of overdetermined linear equations directly under constant pressure dynamics (NPT, NPH, etc.) within the stress-strain method, which does not require the equilibrated lattice as a prior condition. It is shown that the elastic constants converge quickly in constant pressure dynamics. This approach proves to be robust and can significantly reduce computational cost. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Thermoelasticity
Elastic constants
Stress-train method
Molecular dynamics
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Computer Physics Communications cover
Computer Physics Communications
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university of london
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