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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 113, Issue 16, Pages 6888-6900Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1310223
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Based on the Green-Kubo relation from linear response theory, we calculated the thermal current autocorrelation functions from classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We examined the role of quantum corrections to the classical thermal conduction and concluded that these effects are small for fairly harmonic systems such as diamond. We then used the classical MD to extract thermal conductivities for bulk crystalline systems. We find that (at 300 K) C-12 isotopically pure perfect diamond has a thermal conductivity 45% higher than natural (1.1% C-13) diamond. This agrees well with experiment, which shows a 40%-50% increase. We find that vacancies dramatically decrease the thermal conductivity, and that it can be described by a reciprocal relation with a scaling as n(upsilon)(-alpha), with alpha =0.69 +/-0.11 in agreement with phenomenological theory (alpha =1/2 to 3/4). Such calculations of thermal conductivity may become important for describing nanoscale devices. As a first step in studying such systems, we examined the mass effects on the thermal conductivity of compound systems, finding that the layered system has a lower conductivity than the uniform system. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-9606(00)70140-1].
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