Ab initio calculations of the melting temperatures of refractory bcc metals
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- Wang, L. G.
- van de Walle, A.
Abstract
We present ab initio calculations of the melting temperatures for bcc metals Nb, Ta and W. The calculations combine phase coexistence molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using classical embedded-atom method potentials and ab initio density functional theory free energy corrections. The calculated melting temperatures for Nb, Ta and W are, respectively, within 3%, 4%, and 7% of the experimental values. We compare the melting temperatures to those obtained from direct ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and see if they are in excellent agreement with each other. The small remaining discrepancies with experiment are thus likely due to inherent limitations associated with exchange–correlation energy approximations within density-functional theory.
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© 2012 The Owner Societies. Received 25 Sep 2011, Accepted 21 Nov 2011. First published on the web 12 Dec 2011. The authors thank Prof. Dario Alfè at University College London for providing us their NPH molecular dynamics simulation codes used in ref. 18. Discussions with Qijun Hong, Ljubomir Miljacic, and Pratyush Tiwary are gratefully acknowledged. This research was supported by NSF through TeraGrid resources provided by NCSA and TACC under grant DMR050013N and by ONR under grant N00014-11-1-0261.Attached Files
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- 29123
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20120203-105347619
- DMR050013N
- NSF TeraGrid
- N00014-11-1-0261
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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2012-02-03Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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