Short-range order

SiO₂ with 8 Å α-quartz grains: each grain interior holds a handful of intact SiO₄ tetrahedra, but the phase-mismatched boundaries dominate the structure so correlations decay quickly beyond the first neighbour shell.

Parameters

cell.generate(
    shell_target,
    num_steps=250,
    grain_size=14.0,
    bond_weight=1.6,
    angle_weight=1.3,
    repulsion_weight=1.25,
    hard_core_scale=0.82,
    nonbond_push_scale=0.71,
    displacement_sigma=0.011,
)

Relaxation trajectory

g3 distribution