Solid-Liquid Phase Diagrams for Binary Metallic Alloys: Adjustable Interatomic Potentials

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2006-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608039v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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We develop a new approach to determining LJ-EAM potentials for alloys and use these to determine the solid-liquid phase diagrams for binary metallic alloys using Kofke's Gibbs-Duhem integration technique combined with semigrand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that it is possible to produce a wide-range of experimentally observed binary phase diagrams (with no intermetallic phases) by reference to the atomic sizes and cohesive energies of the two elemental materials. In some cases, it is useful to employ a single adjustable parameter to adjust the phase diagram (we provided a good choice for this free parameter). Next, we perform a systematic investigation of the effect of relative atomic sizes and cohesive energies of the elements on the binary phase diagrams. We then show that this approach leads to good agreement with several experimental binary phase diagrams. The main benefit of this approach is not the accurately reproduction of experimental phase diagrams, but rather to provide a method by which material properties can be continuously changed in simulations studies. This is one of the keys to the use of atomistic simulations to understand mechanisms and properties in a manner not available to experiment.

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