Am. Mazzone, ANALYSIS OF NUMERICAL-METHODS FOR USE IN MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS APPLIED TO CRYSTALLINE LATTICES, International journal of modern physics C, 5(3), 1994, pp. 489-502
This work analyzes stability and accuracy of standard numerical method
s applied to molecular dynamics simulations which generate configurati
ons in the microcanonical and in the canonical ensembles. Numerical te
sting has been made on crystalline lattices of metallic and semiconduc
ting type (Ag, Fe, and Si, respectively).