Computer-simulated amorphous structures (I). Quenching of a Lennard-Jones model system

The molecular dynamics technique was used to study the thermodynamic and structural properties of non-crystalline solid structures. The structures were obtained by quenching a model liquid consisting of 336 atoms arranged in a computational cell with periodic boundaries and with the atomic intereaction represented by the Lennard-Jones pair potential. The characteristics of the resulting non-crystalline atomic configurations were found to depend weakly on the applied quenching rate.