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Atomistica

Atomistica is a library of interatomic potentials written in Fortran. It is designed to be used with different computational engines. Currently supported are ASE and LAMMPS (see below).

Supported interatomic potentials

Atomistica implements the potentials that are documented in the following publications. Others that employ identical functional forms can be used by adjusting the parameter set of one of the below.

Empirical bond-order potentials:

  • J. Tersoff
    "Modeling solid-state chemistry: Interatomic potentials for multicomponent systems"
    Phys. Rev. B 39, 5566 (1989) - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.39.5566

  • Donald W. Brenner, Olga A. Shenderova, Judith A. Harrison, Steven J. Stuart, Boris Ni, Susan B. Sinnott
    "A second-generation reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential energy expression for hydrocarbons"
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, 783 (2002) - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/14/4/312

  • Paul Erhart, Karsten Albe
    "Analytical potential for atomistic simulations of silicon, carbon, and silicon carbide"
    Phys. Rev. B 71, 035211 (2005) - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035211

  • T. Kumagai, S. Izumi, S. Hara, S. Sakai
    "Development of bond-order potentials that can reproduce the elastic constants and melting point of silicon for classical molecular dynamics simulation"
    Comp. Mater. Sci. 39, 457 (2007) - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2006.07.013

Screened empirical bond-order potentials:

Embedded-atom method potentials:

Usage

Atomistica can be used in two distinct manners. It is recommended to compile the ASE interface first and run the tests in the "tests" subdirectory. (See ASE intructions below.)

Currently supported engines are...

  1. ...the Atomistic Simulation Environment
    (ASE - see https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/)

    • Build instructions are in README.PYTHON
    • Examples are in examples/ASE
    • Tests are in tests
  2. ...the Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator
    (LAMMPS - see https://lammps.sandia.gov/)

    • Build instructions are in README.LAMMPS
    • Examples are in examples/LAMMPS

You need the following packages:

  • Python 2.4.0 or greater (even if you do not compile the Python interface)

Known issues

We have experienced issues with icc/ifort 11.1 20100414 and do not recommend usage of this particular compiler.

Contact

Please write to Lars Pastewka (lars.pastewka@iwm.fraunhofer.de) for questions and suggestions.

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