Iron melting curve with a tricritical point

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2007-01-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701283v1

J. Stat. Mech. (2006) P12015

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

17 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2006/12/P12015

Solidification as a first order phase transition is described in the Landau theory by the same equation as tricritical phenomena. Here, the solidification or melting temperature against pressure curve is modelled to end at a tricritical point. The model gives the phase transition temperature's dependence on pressure up to the quadratic term with a definite expression for the coefficients. This formula is expected to be generally valid for pure materials having melting curves with dT/dP approaching zero at very high P. Excellent experimental agreement is obtained for iron, the material having the most high pressure data which rather accurately determines the value of the coefficient defining the curvature. The geophysically interesting iron solidification temperatures at the Earth's core pressures are obtained. In addition, the general formulae for entropy change, latent heat and volume contraction in solidification are found and calculated for iron as functions of pressure and temperature.

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