--- trunk/COonPt/firstTry.tex 2012/12/14 04:02:29 3812 +++ trunk/COonPt/firstTry.tex 2012/12/14 05:35:49 3813 @@ -270,7 +270,21 @@ Our model systems are composed of approximately 4000 m \subsection{Construction and Equilibration of 557 Metal interfaces} -Our model systems are composed of approximately 4000 metal atoms cut along the 557 plane so that they are periodic in the \it{x} and \it{y} directions exposing the 557 plane in the \it{z} direction. Runs at various temperatures ranging from 300~K to 1200~K were started with the intent of viewing relative stability of the surface when CO was not present in the system. Owing to the different melting points (1337~K for Au and 2045~K for Pt), the bare crystal systems were initially run in the Canonical ensemble for at 800~K and 1000~K respectively for 100 ps. Various amounts of CO were placed in the vacuum portion which upon full adsorption to the surface corresponded to 5\%, 25\%, 33\%, and 50\% coverages. These systems were again allowed to reach thermal equilibrium before being run in the micro canonical ensemble. All of the systems examined were run for at least 40 ns. A subset that were undergoing interesting effects have been allowed to continue running with one system approaching 200 ns.em +Our model systems are composed of approximately 4000 metal atoms +cut along the 557 plane so that they are periodic in the {\it x} and {\it y} +directions exposing the 557 plane in the {\it z} direction. Runs at various +temperatures ranging from 300~K to 1200~K were started with the intent +of viewing relative stability of the surface when CO was not present in the +system. Owing to the different melting points (1337~K for Au and 2045~K for Pt), +the bare crystal systems were initially run in the Canonical ensemble at +800~K and 1000~K respectively for 100 ps. Various amounts of CO were +placed in the vacuum region, which upon full adsorption to the surface +corresponded to 5\%, 25\%, 33\%, and 50\% coverages. These systems +were again allowed to reach thermal equilibrium before being run in the +microcanonical ensemble. All of the systems examined in this work were +run for at least 40 ns. A subset that were undergoing interesting effects +have been allowed to continue running with one system approaching 200 ns. +All simulations were run using the open source molecular dynamics package, OpenMD. \cite{Ewald, OOPSE}