Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Liquid Magnesium Silicate

Abstract

We use the Oganov potentials and period boundary condition to perform molecular dynamics simulation of amorphous and liquid Mg2SiO4 systems under pressures 0 GPa and 40 GPa. We clarify structure of amorphous Mg2SiO4 at 0 and 40 GPa and compared with the one of Mg2SiO4 at liquid state. Especially, the origin of sub-peaks in radial distribution function of O-O, Si-Si and Mg-Mg pairs is explained clearly. The change of radial distribution functions, coordination number and the number of all types of bonds including the corner-, edge- and face-sharing bonds is also discussed in detail in this paper.