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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207294119
关键词
water; ice nucleation; molecular dynamics; machine learning; density-functional theory
资金
- US Department of Energy (DoE) [DE-SC0019394]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Office of Science of the DoE [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019394] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Molecular simulations based on machine-learning models and density-functional theory have provided insights into the mechanism of homogeneous ice nucleation. The results are in good agreement with experimental measurements, and the impact of factors such as thermodynamic driving force, interfacial free energy, and stacking disorder on nucleation rates has been studied.
Molecular simulations have provided valuable insight into the microscopic mechanisms underlying homogeneous ice nucleation. While empirical models have been used extensively to study this phenomenon, simulations based on first-principles calculations have so far proven prohibitively expensive. Here, we circumvent this difficulty by using an efficient machine-learning model trained on density-functional theory energies and forces. We compute nucleation rates at atmospheric pressure, over a broad range of supercoolings, using the seeding technique and systems of up to hundreds of thousands of atoms simulated with ab initio accuracy. The key quantity provided by the seeding technique is the size of the critical cluster (i.e., a size such that the cluster has equal probabilities of growing or melting at the given supersaturation), which is used together with the equations of classical nucleation theory to compute nucleation rates. We find that nucleation rates for our model at moderate supercoolings are in good agreement with experimental measurements within the error of our calculation. We also study the impact of properties such as the thermodynamic driving force, interfacial free energy, and stacking disorder on the calculated rates.
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