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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.99.051301
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- JST CREST Grant, Japan [JPMJCR17I2]
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Although the computation of heat flux and thermal conductivity either via Fourier's law or the Green-Kubo relation has become a common task in molecular dynamics simulation, contributions of three-body and larger many-body interactions have always proved problematic to compute. In recent years, due to the success when applying to pressure tensor computation, atomic stress approximation has been widely used to calculate heat flux, where the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package is the most prominent propagator. We demonstrated that the atomic stress approximation, while adequate for obtaining pressure, produces erroneous results in the case of heat flux when applied to systems with many-body interactions, such as angle, torsion, or improper potentials. This also produces incorrect thermal conductivity values. To remedy this deficiency, by starting from a strict formulation of heat flux with many-body interactions, we reworked the atomic stress definition which resulted in only a simple modification. We modified the LAMMPS package accordingly to demonstrate that the new atomic stress approximation produces excellent results close to that of a rigid formulation.
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