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Molecular dynamics simulations play an important role in studying heat transport in complex materials. The lattice thermal conductivity can be computed either using the Green-Kubo formula in equilibrium MD (EMD) simulations or using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Libin Shi , Ari Harju , Tapio Ala-Nisilla

Different molecular dynamics methods like the direct method, the Green-Kubo (GK) method and homogeneous non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (HNEMD) method have been widely used to calculate lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_\ell$). While…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-02 Bonny Dongre , Tao Wang , Georg K. H. Madsen

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) has been extensively used to study thermal transport at various length scales in many materials. In this method, two local thermostats at different temperatures are used to generate a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhen Li , Shiyun Xiong , Charles Sievers , Yue Hu , Zheyong Fan , Ning Wei , Hua Bao , Shunda Chen , Davide Donadio , Tapio Ala-Nissila

The standard equilibrium Green-Kubo and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) methods for computing thermal transport coefficients in solids typically require relatively long simulation times and large system sizes. To this end, we revisit…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 Zheyong Fan , Haikuan Dong , Ari Harju , Tapio Ala-Nissila

The design of new applications, especially those based on heterogeneous integration, must rely on detailed knowledge of material properties, such as thermal conductivity (TC). To this end, multiple methods have been developed to study TC as…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Alexander J. Gabourie , Zheyong Fan , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Eric Pop

Ab initio Green-Kubo (aiGK) simulations of heat transport in solids allow for assessing lattice thermal conductivity in anharmonic or complex materials from first principles. In this work, we present a detailed account of their practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-14 Florian Knoop , Matthias Scheffler , Christian Carbogno

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, in combination with the Green-Kubo (GK) method, have been extensively used to compute the thermal conductivity of liquids. However, the GK method relies on an ambiguous definition of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Bingqing Cheng , Daan Frenkel

Equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations through Green-Kubo formula (GKF) have been widely used in the study of thermal conductivity of various materials. However, there exist controversial simulation results which have huge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie Chen , Gang Zhang , Baowen Li

Metals play a crucial role in heat management in electronic devices, such as integrated circuits, making it vital to understand heat transport in elementary metals and alloys. In this work, we systematically study phonon thermal transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Shuo Cao , Ao Wang , Zheyong Fan , Hua Bao , Ping Qian , Ye Su , Yu Yan

Understanding heat transport in semiconductors and insulators is of fundamental importance because of its technological impact in electronics and renewable energy harvesting and conversion. Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics provides a powerful…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Giuseppe Barbalinardo , Zekun Chen , Nicholas W. Lundgren , Davide Donadio

In equilibrium molecular dynamics, Einstein relation can be used to calculate the thermal conductivity. This method is equivalent to Green-Kubo relation and it does not require a derivation of an analytical form for the heat current.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Alper Kinaci , Justin B. Haskins , Tahir Çağın

We herein present a first-principles formulation of the Green-Kubo method that allows the accurate assessment of the non-radiative thermal conductivity of solid semiconductors and insulators in equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-03 Christian Carbogno , Rampi Ramprasad , Matthias Scheffler

The calculation of thermal conductivity in insulating solids at temperatures below the Debye temperature is problematic, due to the breakdown of classical and semi-classical approaches. In this work, we present a fully quantum methodology…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-19 Vladislav Efremkin , Stefano Mossa , Jean-Louis Barrat , Markus Holzmann

In this study we have derived an exact framework for the calculation of the heat flux and its spectral decomposition in Molecular Dynamics (MD) for arbitrary many-body potentials. This work addresses several lacks and limitations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-10 Markos Poulos , Donatas Surblys , Konstantinos Termentzidis

With the objective to understand microscopic principles governing thermal energy flow in nanojunctions, we study phononic heat transport through metal-molecule-metal junctions using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Considering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jonathan J. Wang , Jie Gong , Alan J. H. McGaughey , Dvira Segal

The thermal conductivity of a model for solid argon is investigated using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods, as well as the traditional Boltzmann transport equation approach with input from molecular dynamics calculations, both with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-10 Natalia Bedoya , Jean-Louis Barrat , David Rodney

Accurate prediction of rock thermal conductivity under in-situ conditions is essential for characterizing subsurface heat flow. This study presents a numerical framework based on the Lattice Element Method (LEM) for simulating the effective…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Nima Haghighat , Amir S. Sattari , Hem B. Motra , Frank Wuttke

Equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations along with the Green-Kubo formula have been widely used to calculate lattice thermal conductivities. Previous studies, however, focused primarily on the calculated thermal conductivities,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Zuyuan Wang , Salar Safarkhani , Guang Lin , Xiulin Ruan

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are used to calculate the thermal conductivity of the one component plasma (OCP) via the Green-Kubo formalism over a broad range of Coulomb coupling strength, $0.1\le\Gamma\le180$. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Brett Scheiner , Scott D. Baalrud

The Green-Kubo (GK) method is a rigorous framework for heat transport simulations in materials. However, it requires an accurate description of the potential-energy surface and carefully converged statistics. Machine-learning potentials can…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Marcel F. Langer , Florian Knoop , Christian Carbogno , Matthias Scheffler , Matthias Rupp
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