Ab Initio Phase Diagram of Copper

Crystals

Leonid Burakovsky¹  SamuelR. Baty¹  Daniel Errandonea² 

[1] Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA;MALTA Consolider Team, Departamento de Física Aplicada-ICMUV, Universidad de Valencia, Edificio de Investigación, C/Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Valencia, Spain;

关键词: quantum molecular dynamics;    melting curve;    solid–solid phase transition boundary;    equation of state;    multi-phase materials;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cryst11050537

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Copper has been considered as a common pressure calibrant and equation of state (EOS) and shock wave (SW) standard, because of the abundance of its highly accurate EOS and SW data, and the assumption that Cu is a simple one-phase material that does not exhibit high pressure (P) or high temperature (T) polymorphism. However, in 2014, Bolesta and Fomin detected another solid phase in molecular dynamics simulations of the shock compression of Cu, and in 2017 published the phase diagram of Cu having two solid phases, the ambient face-centered cubic (fcc) and the high-$PT$ body-centered cubic (bcc) ones. Very recently, bcc-Cu has been detected in SW experiments, and a more sophisticated phase diagram of Cu with the two solid phases was published by Smirnov. In this work, using a suite of ab initio quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations based on the Z methodology, which combines both direct Z method for the simulation of melting curves and inverse Z method for the calculation of solid–solid phase boundaries, we refine the phase diagram of Smirnov. We calculate the melting curves of both fcc-Cu and bcc-Cu and obtain an equation for the fcc-bcc solid–solid phase transition boundary. We also obtain the thermal EOS of Cu, which is in agreement with experimental data and QMD simulations. We argue that, despite being a polymorphic rather than a simple one-phase material, copper remains a reliable pressure calibrant and EOS and SW standard.

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