Abstract
Abstract Monte Carlo techniques previously applied to modelling nucleation processes by van Duijneveldt and Frenkel in 1992, have been used to investigate a first-order phase transition of vanadium dioxide which occurs at 340 K. A low-symmetry monoclinic distorted rutile phase transforms to a tetragonal rutile-type structure. Interionic potentials have been derived from a periodic Hartree-Fock study of this transition, which reproduce the structural parameters of the two phases to within 4%. Non-Boltzmann-weighted Monte Carlo simulations showed that a small free-energy barrier (of the order of kT), separates the distorted structure from the more thermodynamically stable phase.
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