Sukhomlinov SV, Müser MH. Constraints on phase stability, defect energies, and elastic constants of metals described by EAM-type potentials.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016;
28:395701. [PMID:
27465401 DOI:
10.1088/0953-8984/28/39/395701]
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Abstract
We demonstrate that the embedded-atom method and related potentials predict many dimensionless properties of simple metals to depend predominantly on a single coefficient μ, which typically lies between 0.3 and 0.45. Among other relations presented in this work, we find that [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] hold within 25% accuracy and also find a linear dependence of the melting temperature on μ. The used variables are cohesive energy E c, coordination number Z, vacancy energy E v, and bulk modulus B, while G is the average of ordinary and tetragonal shear modulus. We provide analytical arguments for these findings, which are obeyed reasonably well by several metals.
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