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How Small a System is Too Small for Studying Liquid Behavior?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

Marcia. H. Grabow
Marcia. H. Grabow*
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974.
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Abstract

Although it is often convenient to perform computer simulations with small systems, in liquids the structure obtained using a small system may not be the same that would be obtained in the thermodynamic limit. In this paper we address the question specifically for the case of Stillinger-Weber silicon, identifying the region of density and temperature where small systems give different results from larger systems.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 291: Symposium O – Materials Theory and Modeling , 1992 , 171
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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