Molecular dynamics study of melting of a bcc metal-vanadium II : thermodynamic melting

Details Molecular dynamics study of melting of a bcc metal-vanadium II : thermodynamic melting Molecular dynamics study of melting of a bcc metal-vanadium II : thermodynamic melting

2003-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305082v1

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Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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10.1103/PhysRevB.68.174103

We present molecular dynamics simulations of the thermodynamic melting transition of a bcc metal, vanadium using the Finnis-Sinclair potential. We studied the structural, transport and energetic properties of slabs made of 27 atomic layers with a free surface. We investigated premelting phenomena at the low-index surfaces of vanadium; V(111), V(001), and V(011), finding that as the temperature increases, the V(111) surface disorders first, then the V(100) surface, while the V(110) surface remains stable up to the melting temperature. Also, as the temperature increases, the disorder spreads from the surface layer into the bulk, establishing a thin quasiliquid film in the surface region. We conclude that the hierarchy of premelting phenomena is inversely proportional to the surface atomic density, being most pronounced for the V(111) surface which has the lowest surface density.

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