Medium-range order

SiO₂ with 10 Å α-quartz grains: grain interiors now comfortably hold multiple shells of tetrahedra, so clear patches of α-quartz appear interspersed with the phase-boundary disorder.

Parameters

cell.generate(
    shell_target,
    num_steps=250,
    grain_size=17.0,
    bond_weight=1.65,
    angle_weight=1.35,
    repulsion_weight=1.3,
    hard_core_scale=0.82,
    nonbond_push_scale=0.72,
    displacement_sigma=0.011,
)

Relaxation trajectory

g3 distribution