Particle swarm optimized interatomic potentials for novel 2D materials for temperature dependent vibrational properties

Two-dimensional materials are expected to become key components for novel applications because of their exotic properties. Predicting the mechanical and thermal properties of two dimensional materials is an essential task necessary for their implementation in device applications. Fully understanding of most of the material properties needs an atomistic description. Although, rigorous density functional theory based calculations are able to predict mechanical and electronic properties, mostly they are limited to zero temperature. Classical molecular dynamics facilitates the investigation of temperature dependent properties, but its performance highly depends on the potential used for defining interactions between the atoms. In this study, we calculated temperature dependent phonon properties of several single layer 2D systems including graphene, silicene, group III nitrides, i.e GaN, AlN and BN, and TMDs by developing particle swarm optimized Stillinger-Weber type potentials with respect to the first-principles datasets. These potentials validated by comparing the resulted phonon dispersion curves and thermal conductivities with available first-principles and experimental results.