Medium-range structure of vitreous SiO2

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    "doi": "10.24435/materialscloud:2019.0086/v1", 
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    "title": "Medium-range structure of vitreous SiO2 ", 
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        "description": "The atomic structure of the bulk vitreous silica model labelled as Model III in Phys. Rev. B 79, 064202 (2009). This model contains 72 atoms, with the lattice parameters of 10.3004 angstrom in the x, y and z direction, respectively.\r\n ", 
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        "description": "The atomic structure of the bulk vitreous silica model labelled as Model II in Phys. Rev. B 79, 064202 (2009). This model contains 72 atoms, with the lattice parameters of 10.3007 angstrom in the x, y and z direction, respectively.\r\n", 
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        "description": "The atomic structure of the bulk vitreous silica model labelled as Model I in Phys. Rev. B 79, 064202 (2009). This model contains 144 atoms, with the lattice parameters of 12.960055 angstrom in the x, y and z direction, respectively. \r\n", 
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    "keywords": [
      "EPFL", 
      "SNSF", 
      "DFT", 
      "vitreous SiO2", 
      "Raman", 
      "infrared", 
      "CSCS"
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    "references": [
      {
        "type": "Journal reference", 
        "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064202", 
        "url": "https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064202", 
        "comment": "", 
        "citation": "L. Giacomazzi, P. Umari, and A. Pasquarello, Phys, Rev. B 79, 064202 (2009)."
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    "publication_date": "Dec 11, 2019, 00:00:00", 
    "license": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", 
    "id": "276", 
    "description": "Using a density-functional framework, we investigate the vibrational spectra of vitreous SiO2 to determine to what extent these spectra provide information about the medium-range structure of the oxide network. We carry out a comparative study involving three model structures, which all feature a nondefective network of corner-sharing tetrahedra but differ through their Si-O-Si bond-angle distributions and ring statistics. We first address the results of typical diffraction probes. Fair agreement with experiment is achieved for the total neutron and total x-ray structure factors of all models, indicating limited sensitivity of these structure factors to the medium-range structure. The same consideration also applies to the Si-O and O-O partial structure factors. At variance, the Si-Si partial structure factor is found to be highly sensitive to the Si-O-Si bond-angle distribution. We then address typical vibrational spectra, such as the inelastic neutron spectrum, the infrared spectra, and the Raman spectra. Our study indicates that the considered experimental data are globally consistent with a medium-range structure characterized by an average Si-O-Si bond angle of 148\u00b0 and with small-ring concentrations as derived from the intensities of the experimental Raman defect lines. To describe the infrared and Raman couplings, our work also introduces parametric models which reproduce well the spectra calculated from first principles.\r\n", 
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    "contributors": [
      {
        "email": "luigi.giacomazzi@alumni.epfl.ch", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 11c, SI-5270 Ajdov\u0161\u010dina, Slovenia"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Giacomazzi", 
        "givennames": "Luigi"
      }, 
      {
        "email": "paolo.umari@unipd.it", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universit\u00e0 di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Umari", 
        "givennames": "Paolo"
      }, 
      {
        "email": "alfredo.pasquarello@epfl.ch", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Chaire de Simulation \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9chelle Atomique (CSEA), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland"
        ], 
        "familyname": "Pasquarello", 
        "givennames": "Alfredo"
      }
    ], 
    "edited_by": 98
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  "updated": "2019-12-11T00:00:00+00:00"
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