Masato Shiinoki

Structure analysis of liquid bismuth using molecular dynamics simulation

Liquid bismuth (Bi) exhibits an anomalous local structure that cannot be described by the hard-sphere model. It features a subpeak near 3 Å−1 in the structure factor and a shoulder over the range of 4 Å–5.5 Å in the pair distribution function. This anomaly is associated with the Peierls distortion in the crystalline A7...