Direct calculation of the crystal-melt interfacial free energies for continuous potentials: Application to the Lennard-Jones system

Abstract

Extending to continuous potentials a cleaving wall molecular-dynamics simulation method recently developed for the hard-sphere system [Phys.Rev.Lett 85, 4751 (2000)], we calculate the crystal-melt interfacial free energies, $\gamma$, for a Lennard-Jones system as functions of both crystal orientation and temperature. At the triple point, T* = 0.617, the results are consistent with an earlier cleaving potential calculation by Broughton and Gilmer [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 84}, 5759 (1986)], however, the greater precision of the current calculation allows us to accurately determine the anisotropy of $\gamma$. From our data we find that, at all temperatures studied, ${\gamma }_{111}<{\gamma }_{110}<{\gamma }_{100}$. Comparison is made to the results from our previous hard-sphere calculation and to recent results for Ni by Asta, Hoyt and Karma [Phys. Rev. B, 66 100101(R) (2002)].

7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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