Silicon
Models of silicon
Stillinger-Weber model
See Ref. 1.
Tersoff potential
See Ref. 3.
Polyamorphism in silicon
Silicon is a polyamorphic system.
- Sudip K. Deb, Martin Wilding, Maddury Somayazulu and Paul F. McMillan "Pressure-induced amorphization and an amorphous–amorphous transition in densified porous silicon", Nature 414 pp. 528-530 (2001)
- Srikanth Sastry and C. Austen Angell "Liquid–liquid phase transition in supercooled silicon", Nature Materials 2 pp. 739 - 743 (2003)
- Philippe Beaucage and Normand Mousseau "Liquid–liquid phase transition in Stillinger–Weber silicon", Jorunal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17 pp. 2269-2279 (2005)
References
- Frank H. Stillinger and Thomas A. Weber "Computer simulation of local order in condensed phases of silicon", Physical Review B 31 pp. 5262 - 5271 (1985)
- L. Goodwin, A. J. Skinner and D. G. Pettifor "Generating Transferable Tight-Binding Parameters: Application to Silicon", Europhysics Letters 9 pp. 701-706 (1989)
- J. Tersoff "New empirical approach for the structure and energy of covalent systems", Physical Review B 37 pp. 6991-7000 (1988)