Ground state orderings in icosahedral Ag-Au nanoparticles¶

Structures at every concentration of a 309-atom Mackay icosahedron, obtained using exact solution of a cluster expansion model.

Rich Ground-State Chemical Ordering in Nanoparticles: Exact Solution of a Model for Ag-Au Clusters

Peter Mahler Larsen, Karsten Wedel Jacobsen, and Jakob Schiøtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 256101

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Example¶

Energies of formation (from EMT) vs the number of Au atoms in the nanoparticle:

../_images/formation_energies.svg

# creates: formation_energies.svg
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from ase.db import connect

db = connect('agau309.db')
num_au = []
energies = []
for row in db.select():
    count = row.count_atoms().get('Au', 0)
    num_au.append(count)
    energies.append(row.energy)
    natoms = row.natoms

num_au = np.array(num_au)
energies = np.array(energies)
E0 = energies[0]
E1 = energies[-1]
fracs = num_au.astype(np.double) / natoms
Ef = (energies - E0) + (E0 - E1) * fracs

plt.plot(num_au, 1000 * Ef / natoms)
plt.ylabel('Energy of formation (meV / atom)')
plt.xlabel('Number of gold atoms')
plt.savefig('formation_energies.svg', bbox_inches='tight')