Finite Temperature, Magnetic, and Many-Body Effects in Ab Initio Simulations of Alloy ThermodynamicsShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: TMS2013 Supplemental Proceedings, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 617-626Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Ab initio electronic structure theory is known as a useful tool for prediction of materials properties. However, majority of simulations still deal with calculations in the framework of density functional theory with local or semi-local functionals carried out at zero temperature. We present new methodological solution.s, which go beyond this approach and explicitly take finite temperature, magnetic, and many-body effects into account. Considering Ti-based alloys, we discuss !imitations of the quasiharmonic approximation for the treatment of lattice vibrations, and present an accurate and easily extendable method to calculate free ,energies of strongly anharmonic solids. We underline the necessity to going beyond the state-of-the-art techniques for the determination of effective cluster interactions in systems exhibiting mctal-to-insulator transition, and describe a unified cluster expansion approach developed for this class of materials. Finally, we outline a first-principles method, disordered local moments molecular dynamics, for calculations of thermodynamic properties of magnetic alloys, like Cr1-x,.AlxN, in their high-temperature paramagnetic state. Our results unambiguously demonstrate importance of finite temperature effects in theoretical calculations ofthermodynamic properties ofmaterials.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2013. p. 617-626
Keywords [en]
Alloy thermodynamics, Ti alloys, (Ti-Al)N, (Cr-Al)N
National Category
Condensed Matter Physics Theoretical Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Metallurgy and Metallic Materials
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-136443DOI: 10.1002/9781118663547.ch77ISBN: 9781118605813 (print)ISBN: 9781118663547 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-136443DiVA, id: diva2:1087779
2017-04-102017-04-102017-11-01Bibliographically approved
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