Extracting physical observables using macroscopic ensemble in the spex-mixer/mill simulation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a macroscopic ensemble simulation method for spex-mixer/mill systems, enabling extraction of physical observables in nanomaterial processing without solving equations of motion.

Contribution

The novel approach simplifies simulating spex-mixer/mill systems by using a macroscopic ensemble, facilitating observable extraction in nanomaterial comminution processes.

Findings

Method effectively extracts physical observables

Suitable for nanomaterial scale processes

Simplifies simulation without equations of motion

Abstract

A technique to simulate the spex-mixer/mill system as a macroscopic ensemble rather than a pure dynamical system is proposed. The treatment is suitable especially for comminution processes generating the nanomaterial up to nanometers scale where the geometrical displacements are unobservable. It is argued that the method is simple and experimentally verifiable since relevant physical observables can be extracted using partition function without solving the equation of motions.