Quantum-corrected thickness-dependent thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon predicted by machine learning molecular dynamics simulations

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dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorWang, Yanzhouen_US
dc.contributor.authorFan, Zheyongen_US
dc.contributor.authorQian, Pingen_US
dc.contributor.authorCaro, Miguel A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAla-Nissila, Tapioen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Applied Physicsen
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Chemistry and Materials Scienceen
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Automationen
dc.contributor.groupauthorMultiscale Statistical and Quantum Physicsen
dc.contributor.groupauthorDAS Groupen
dc.contributor.groupauthorCentre of Excellence in Quantum Technology, QTFen
dc.contributor.groupauthorMicrosystems Technologyen
dc.contributor.organizationDepartment of Applied Physicsen_US
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Science and Technology Beijingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T06:19:13Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05T06:19:13Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-01en_US
dc.descriptionFunding Information: The authors acknowledge funding from the Academy of Finland, under Projects No. 321713 (M.A.C. and Y. W.), No. 330488 (M.A.C.), No. 312298/QTF Center of Excellence program (T.A.-N., Z.F., and Y.W.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 11974059 (Z.F.), the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No. 2021YFB3802100 (P.Q. and Y.W.), and the China Scholarship Council under Grant No. CSC202006460064 (Y.W.). The authors also acknowledge computational resources from the Finnish Center for Scientific Computing (CSC) and Aalto University's Science IT project. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 American Physical Society.
dc.description.abstractAmorphous silicon (a-Si) is an important thermal-management material and also serves as an ideal playground for studying heat transport in strongly disordered materials. Theoretical prediction of the thermal conductivity of a-Si in a wide range of temperatures and sample sizes is still a challenge. Herein we present a systematic investigation of the thermal transport properties of a-Si by employing large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with an accurate and efficient machine learned neuroevolution potential (NEP) trained against abundant reference data calculated at the quantum-mechanical density-functional-theory level. The high efficiency of NEP allows us to study the effects of finite size and quenching rate in the formation of a-Si in great detail. We find that a simulation cell up to 64000 atoms (a cubic cell with a linear size of 11 nm) and a quenching rate down to 1011 K s-1 are required for almost convergent thermal conductivity. Structural properties, including short- and medium-range order as characterized by the pair-correlation function, angular-distribution function, coordination number, ring statistics, and structure factor are studied to demonstrate the accuracy of NEP and to further evaluate the role of quenching rate. Using both the heterogeneous and homogeneous nonequilibrium MD methods and the related spectral decomposition techniques, we calculate the temperature- and thickness-dependent thermal conductivity values of a-Si and show that they agree well with available experimental results from 10 K to room temperature. Our results also highlight the importance of quantum effects in the calculated thermal conductivity and support the quantum-correction method based on the spectral thermal conductivity.en
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dc.identifier.citationWang, Y, Fan, Z, Qian, P, Caro, M A & Ala-Nissila, T 2023, ' Quantum-corrected thickness-dependent thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon predicted by machine learning molecular dynamics simulations ', Physical Review B, vol. 107, no. 5, 054303, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.054303en
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevB.107.054303en_US
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dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 107, issue 5en
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dc.titleQuantum-corrected thickness-dependent thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon predicted by machine learning molecular dynamics simulationsen
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