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ANNALS OF PHYSICS
Volume 391, Issue -, Pages 120-149Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2018.01.016
Keywords
Gibbs measure; Thermal disorder; Quantum molecular dynamics
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme [716142]
- Keck Foundation
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This work represents the first chapter of a project on the foundations of first-principle calculations of the electron transport in crystals at finite temperatures. We are interested in the range of temperatures, where most electronic components operate, that is, room temperature and above. The aim is a predictive first principle formalism that combines ab-initio molecular dynamics and a finite-temperature Kubo-formula for homogeneous thermodynamic phases. The input for this formula is the ergodic dynamical system (Omega, G, dP) defining the thermodynamic crystalline phase, where Omega is the configuration space for the atomic degrees of freedom, G is the space group acting on Omega and dP is the ergodic Gibbs measure relative to the G-action. The present work develops an algorithmic method for quantifying (Omega, G, dP) from first principles. Using the silicon crystal as a working example, we find the Gibbs measure to be extremely well characterized by a multivariate normal distribution, which can be quantified using a small number of parameters. The latter are computed at various temperatures and communicated in the form of a table. Using this table, one can generate large and accurate thermally-disordered atomic configurations to serve, for example, as input for subsequent simulations of the electronic degrees of freedom. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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