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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 146, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4977050
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- council of scientific and industrial research (CSIR), India
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For understanding the dynamical and thermodynamical properties of metal nanoparticles, one has to go beyond static and structural predictions of a nanoparticle. Accurate description of dynamical properties may be computationally intensive depending on the size of nanoparticle. Herein, we demonstrate the use of atomistic neural network potentials, obtained by fitting quantum mechanical data, for extensive molecular dynamics simulations of gold nanoparticles. The fitted potential was tested by performing global optimizations of size selected gold nanoparticles (Au-n, 17 <= n <= 58). We performed molecular dynamics simulations in canonical (NVT) and microcanonical (NVE) ensembles on Au17, Au34, Au58 for a total simulation time of around 3 ns for each nanoparticle. Our study based on both NVT and NVE ensembles indicate that there is a dynamical coexistence of solid-like and liquidlike phases near melting transition. We estimate the probability at finite temperatures for set of isomers lying below 0.5 eV from the global minimum structure. In the case of Au-17 and Au-58, the properties can be estimated using global minimum structure at room temperature, while for Au-34, global minimum structure is not a dominant structure even at low temperatures. Published by AIP Publishing.
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