Enabling the investigation of the evolution of structure on the atomic scale, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are chosen for modeling the behavior and precipitation of C introduced into an initially crystalline Si environment.
To be able to model systems with a large amount of atoms computational efficient classical potentials to describe the interaction of the atoms are most often used in MD studies.
For reasons of flexibility in executing this non-standard task and in order to be able to use a novel interaction potential \cite{albe_sic_pot} an appropriate MD code called {\textsc posic}\footnote{{\textsc posic} is an abbreviation for {\bf p}recipitation {\bf o}f {\bf SiC}}\footnote{Source code: http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/\~{}zirkelfr/posic/posic.tar.bz2} including a library collecting respective MD subroutines was developed from scratch.
-The basic ideas of MD in general and the adopted techniques as implemented in {\em posic} in particular are outlined in section \ref{section:md}, while the functional form and derivative of the employed classical potential is presented in appendix \ref{app:d_tersoff}.
+The basic ideas of MD in general and the adopted techniques as implemented in {\textsc posic} in particular are outlined in section \ref{section:md}, while the functional form and derivative of the employed classical potential is presented in appendix \ref{app:d_tersoff}.
An overview of the most important tools within the MD package is given in appendix \ref{app:code}.
Although classical potentials are often most successful and at the same time computationally efficient in calculating some physical properties of a particular system, not all of its properties might be described correctly due to the lack of quantum-mechanical effects.
Thus, in order to obtain more accurate results quantum-mechanical calculations from first principles based on density functional theory (DFT) were performed.
\section{Denstiy functional theory}
\label{section:dft}
-\subsection{Hohenberg-Kohn theorem}
+In quantum-mechanical modeling the problem of describing the many-body problem, i.e. a system of a large amount of interacting particles, is manifested in the high-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for the wave function $\Psi({\vec{R}},{\vec{r}})$ that depends on the coordinates of all nuclei and electrons.
+The Schr\"odinger equation contains the kinetic energy of the ions and electrons as well as the electron-ion, ion-ion and electron-electron interaction.
+This cannot be solved exactly and there are several layers of approximations to reduce the number of parameters.
+The key point in density functional theory (DFT) is to recast the problem to a description using the charge density $n(\vec{r})$ that depends on only three spatial coordinates instead of the many-body wave function.
+Formally DFT can be regarded as an exactification of both, the Thomas Fermi and Hartree theory.
+In the following sections the basic idea of DFT will be outlined.
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+\subsection{Born-Oppenheimer approximation}
-\subsection{Born-Oppenheimer (adiabatic) approximation}
+The first approximation employed
+
+\subsection{Hohenberg-Kohn theorem}
\subsection{Effective potential}
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