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Simulations are essential to accelerate the discovery of new materials and to gain full understanding of known ones. Although hard to realize experimentally, periodic boundary conditions are omnipresent in material simulations. In this work, we intro-duce ROBIN (recursive open boundary and interfaces), the first method allowing open boundary conditions in material and interface modeling. The computational costs are limited to solving quantum properties in a focus area which allows explicitly discretizing millions of atoms in real space and to consider virtually any type of environment (be it periodic, regular, or ran-dom). The impact of the periodicity assumption is assessed in detail with silicon dopants in graphene. Graphene was con-firmed to produce a band gap with periodic substitution of 3% carbon with silicon in agreement with published periodic boundary condition calculations. Instead, 3% randomly distributed silicon in graphene only shifts the energy spectrum. The predicted shift agrees quantitatively with published experimental data. Key insight of this assessment is, assuming periodici-ty elevates a small perturbation of a periodic cell into a strong impact on the material property prediction. Periodic boundary conditions can be applied on truly periodic systems only. More general systems should apply an open boundary method for reliable predictions.
Continuum solvation methods can provide an accurate and inexpensive embedding of quantum simulations in liquid or complex dielectric environments. Notwithstanding a long history and manifold applications to isolated systems in open boundary condition
An algorithm implemented in an open-source python library was developed for building periodic coincidence site lattice (CSL) grain boundary models in a universal fashion. The software framework aims to generate tilt and twist grain boundaries from cu
We report a significant Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) at interfaces comprising hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and Co. By comparing the behavior of these phenomena at graphene/Co and h-BN/Co interf
In order to model a spiral spin state in a thin film, we study a classical Heisenberg model with open boundary conditions. With magnetic field applied in the plane of the film, the spin state becomes ferromagnetic above a critical field that increase
Net atomic charges (NACs) are widely used in all chemical sciences to concisely summarize key information about the partitioning of electrons among atoms in materials. Although widely used, there is currently no atomic population analysis method suit