期刊
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
卷 110, 期 11-12, 页码 1069-1079出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2011.637524
关键词
nanothermodynamics; thermodynamics of small systems; molecular simulation; finite size scaling
资金
- NWO-CW through an ECHO
- Stichting Nationale Computerfaciliteiten (National Computing Facilities Foundation, NCF)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk onderzoek (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO)
We present a detailed study on the finite size scaling behaviour of thermodynamic properties for small systems of particles embedded in a reservoir. Previously, we derived that the leading finite size effects of thermodynamic properties for small systems scale with the inverse of the linear length of the small system, and we showed how this can be used to describe systems in the thermodynamic limit [Chem. Phys. Lett. 504, 199 (2011)]. This approach takes into account an effective surface energy, as a result of the non-periodic boundaries of the small embedded system. Deviations from the linear behaviour occur when the small system becomes very small, i.e. smaller than three times the particle diameter in each direction. At this scale, so-called nook-and corner effects will become important. In this work, we present a detailed analysis to explain this behaviour. In addition, we present a model for the finite size scaling when the size of the small system is of the same order of magnitude as the reservoir. The developed theory is validated using molecular simulations of systems containing Lennard-Jones and WCA particles, and leads to significant improvements over our previous approach. Our approach eventually leads to an efficient method to compute the thermodynamic factor of macroscopic systems from finite size scaling, which is for example required for converting Fick and Maxwell-Stefan transport diffusivities.
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