Matter Modeling Asked by nathanielng on November 18, 2021
I wish to calculate solution-phase dielectric constants (required for a Monte-Carlo model) for CoCl$_2$ and TaS$_2$ dissolved in DMF.
Is it possible to estimate these constants from the solid-state values, or to obtain them from first-principles / molecular dynamics calculations?
It's possible to estimate solution-phase dielectric constant from a molecular dynamics simulation using this formula:
$$epsilon_{r} = 1 + frac{4pi}{3Vk_{B}T}(langle mathbf{P}^{2} rangle - langle mathbf{P} rangle^{2})$$
Where $V$ is the volume, $k_{B}$ is Boltzmann's constant, $T$ is temperature, and $P$ is the dipole moment defined as: $mathbf{P} = sum_{i} vec{mu}_{i}$ the summation of molecular dipole moments.
In the absence of any external electric field (which I assume is the case here), from electrostatics, you have:
$$mathbf{P}(mathbf{r}) = chi int_{Omega} mathbf{T}(mathbf{r}-mathbf{r}^{'})cdot mathbf{P}(mathbf{r}^{'}) d^{3} mathbf{r}^{'}$$
$chi$ is the susceptibility, which is unknown here. Also, $mathbf{T}$ is the dipole-dipole tensor defined as:
$$T_{ij} = frac{partial^{2}}{partial x_{i}partial x_{j}}(-ln(r))$$
Now if you replace the integral with a summation and replace $mathbf{P}(mathbf{r})$ with the discretized dipole moment at molecular locations shown as $mathsf{P}$ and the discretized dipole-dipole tensor (matrix $mathsf{T}$), you have:
$$mathsf{P} = chi mathsf{T} cdot mathsf{P}$$
or:
$$mathsf{T} cdot mathsf{P} = frac{1}{chi} mathsf{P}$$
This is an eigenvalue problem where you know dipole-dipole tensor $mathsf{T}$, while the eigenvector (dipole moment $mathsf{P}$) and eigenvalue (susceptibility $chi$) are unknowns. You can solve this eigenvalue problem for your system and then you'll get the dielectric constant by estimating the fluctuation of dipole moment.
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