This paper studies the effects of temperature and aperture size on the nanojet ejection process by means of molecular dynamics simulation using the Lennard-Jones potential. According to the analysis, it can be seen that the spurting atoms from the nanojet aperture are more evenly distributed as the temperature is increased. However, as the temperature lowers, the atoms easily concentrate on the...

Abstract We study the transition pathways of a Lennard-Jones cluster of seven particles in three dimensions. Low lying saddle points of the LJ cluster, which can be reached directly from a minimum without passing through another minimum, are identified without any presumption of their characteristics, nor of the product states they lead to. The probabilities are computed for paths going from a ...

A method for extracting force constants FCs from first principles is introduced. In principle, provided that forces are accurate enough, it can extract harmonic as well as anharmonic FCs up to any neighbor shell. Symmetries of the FCs as well as those of the lattice are used to reduce the number of parameters to be calculated. The results are illustrated for the case of the Lennard-Jones potent...

Detailed studies of the thermodynamic properties of selected binary Lennard-Jones clusters of the type X13-nYn (where n=1, 2, 3) are presented. The total energy, heat capacity, and first derivative of the heat capacity as a function of temperature are calculated by using the classical and path integral Monte Carlo methods combined with the parallel tempering technique. A modification in the pha...

Naitoh and Ono, by Simulating Couette flow, re­ cently measured the hardsphere viscosity coefficient for 108 hard spheres at the freezing density [1]. A pe­ riodic system undergoing homogeneous shear was studied with molecular dynamics. Similar calculations have also been carried out using the Lennard-Jones REE-EYRING potential [2-4]. At the freezing density Naitoh and Ono use a square­ "N ALDE...

Abundances of ArN+ and XeN+ clusters produced in a supersonic expansion source are inverted to find relative dissociation energies. The values around the shell and subshell closings at N=55, 71, and 147 differ from theoretical values derived from ground-state energies of Lennard-Jones clusters. A significant part of the difference can be accounted for by the conformational entropies of surface ...

Monte Carlo simulation and theory are used to calculate excess thermodynamic properties of binary mixtures of Lennard-Jones chains. Chainlike molecules are formed by Lennard-Jones spherical sites that are tangentially bonded. This molecular model accounts explictly for the most important microscopic features of real chainlike molecules, such as n-alkanes: repulsive and attractive forces between...