# # CDDL HEADER START # # The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development # and Distribution License Version 1.0 (the "License"). # # You can obtain a copy of the license at # http://www.opensource.org/licenses/CDDL-1.0. See the License for the # specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. # # When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each file and # include the License file in a prominent location with the name LICENSE.CDDL. # If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the fields # enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying information: # # Portions Copyright (c) [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]. All rights reserved. # # CDDL HEADER END # # # # Author: Daniel S. Karls # # Copyright (c) 2012-2021, Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights # reserved. This C-based implementation of the EDIP bond-order potential is based on version 1.1 of the C code published by Prof. Martin Z. Bazant at http://web.mit.edu/bazant/www/EDIP/index.html. All functional forms are evaluated analytically, i.e. no splines are used for evaluation. It computes energy, forces, and virial and supports flexible unit handling. It also publishes all model parameters in the KIM API so that they may be adjusted by a simulator. Notes: (1) The 'delta' parameter appearing in the original version of this model (for Si this has a value of delta = 78.7590539) has been eliminated, and instead, 'eta' is used as a free parameter. 'delta' and 'eta' are related through eta = delta/Q0 (where Q0 is another free parameter), but because the latest EDIP publication lists a value for eta rather than delta, it seemed more appropriate to use 'eta' as a free parameter in its own right instead of delta. For Silicon, eta = 0.2523244 is the value cited in the EDIP papers. (2) Since forces are required to compute the virial, the forces will be computed even if the Test asks only for the virial. ----------------------------------------- A note on how this model is implemented: This model was adapted from Prof. Martin Z. Bazant's code (thanks also to Prof. Joao F. Justo for an additional fortran reference code). Because of the coordination-dependency of the 2-body and 3-body terms, we're forced to do multiple loops over all of the atoms. The first inner loop (the "Pre-pass loop") goes over all of the other atoms and determines which ones are inside the cutoff radius of the atom being considered by the outer loop. For those within the cutoff radius, it computes part of the 2-body interaction (the part that doesn't require the coordination to be known) and the radial parts of the 3-body interaction. Finally, the coordination of each of the atoms within the cutoff is added onto the total coordination, Z, for that atom. Having Z, we now have to loop over all other atoms once more in order to calculate the coordination-dependent portion of the 2-body energy and get the final 2-body energy for the atom being considered in the outermost loop, V2. Note also that we are unable to perform a "half-summation" for the two-body terms (with an outer loop over i and an inner loop over j>i) because of the asymmetry the coordination introduces into the 2-body energy (V2(R_ij,Z_i) != V2(R_ji,Z_j)). We also need to use Z to perform another set of nested loops in order to calculate the coordination-dependent portion of the 3-body energy, h(l,Z). This will give us the total 3-body energy for the atom being considered in the outermost loop, V3. Since we are forced to loop over the same atoms multiple times (first to get the coordination and then to compute the energies), it makes sense to reduce the computational expense of the subsequent looping by only looping over the atoms which have already been determined to fall within the cutoff radius. To this end, this code generates its own *internal* neighbor list. The original EDIP publications can be found at: 1. M. Z. Bazant and E. Kaxiras, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4370 (1996). 2. M. Z. Bazant, E. Kaxiras, J. F. Justo, Phys. Rev. B 56, 8542 (1997). 3. J. F. Justo, M. Z. Bazant, E. Kaxiras, V. V. Bulatov, and S. Yip, Phys. Rev. B 58, 2539 (1998). If you are interested in an explanation of the looping structure, etc., in this code and why it was chosen, see chapter 6 of Prof. Bazant's 1997 Ph.D. thesis, available at http://web.mit.edu/bazant/www/thesis/md.html. Page 156 of this thesis includes a pseudocode of what has been implemented here. Written by Daniel S. Karls (University of Minnesota). Contact: karl0100 |AT| umn.edu.