title: Shock melting method to determine melting curve by molecular dynamics: Cu, Pd, and Al.
abstract: A melting simulation method, the shock melting (SM) method, is proposed and proved to be able to determine the melting curves of materials accurately and efficiently. The SM method, which is based on the multi-scale shock technique, determines melting curves by preheating and/or prepressurizing materials before shock. This strategy was extensively verified using both classical and ab initio molecular dynamics (MD). First, the SM method yielded the same satisfactory melting curve of Cu with only 360 atoms using classical MD, compared to the results from the Z-method and the two-phase coexistence method. Then, it also produced a satisfactory melting curve of Pd with only 756 atoms. Finally, the SM method combined with ab initio MD cheaply achieved a good melting curve of Al with only 180 atoms, which agrees well with the experimental data and the calculated results from other methods. It turned out that the SM method is an alternative efficient method for calculating the melting curves of materials.
authors.affiliation: College of Physics and Electric Information, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, China.
authors.forename: Zhong-Li
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Extreme Conditions Matter Properties, Southwest University of Science and Technology, 621010 Mianyang, Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Xiu-Lu
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research, Institute of Fluid Physics, P.O. Box 919-102, 621900 Mianyang, Sichuan, China.
authors.forename: Ling-Cang
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Cai