Method for Computing Short-Range Forces between Solid-Liquid Interfaces Driving Grain Boundary Premelting

Details Method for Computing Short-Range Forces between Solid-Liquid Interfaces Driving Grain Boundary Premelting Method for Computing Short-Range Forces between Solid-Liquid Interfaces Driving Grain Boundary Premelting

2008-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2358v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, four figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.79.020601

We present a molecular dynamics based method for computing accurately short-range structural forces resulting from the overlap of spatially diffuse solid-liquid interfaces at wetted grain boundaries close to the melting point. The method is based on monitoring the fluctuations of the liquid layer width at different temperatures to extract the excess interfacial free-energy as a function of this width. The method is illustrated for a high energy Sigma 9 twist boundary in pure Ni. The short-range repulsion driving premelting is found to be dominant in comparison to long-range dispersion and entropic forces and consistent with previous experimental findings that nanometer-scale layer widths may only be observed very close to the melting point.

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