The Effect of Lattice Vibrations on Substitutional Alloy Thermodynamics

Details The Effect of Lattice Vibrations on Substitutional Alloy Thermodynamics The Effect of Lattice Vibrations on Substitutional Alloy Thermodynamics

2001-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106490v1

A. van de Walle and G. Ceder, Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 11-45 (2002).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics 44 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/RevModPhys.74.11

A longstanding limitation of first-principles calculations of substitutional alloy phase diagrams is the difficulty to account for lattice vibrations. A survey of the theoretical and experimental literature seeking to quantify the impact of lattice vibrations on phase stability indicates that this effect can be substantial. Typical vibrational entropy differences between phases are of the order of 0.1 to 0.2 k_B/atom, which is comparable to the typical values of configurational entropy differences in binary alloys (at most 0.693 k_B/atom). This paper describes the basic formalism underlying ab initio phase diagram calculations, along with the generalization required to account for lattice vibrations. We overview the various techniques allowing the theoretical calculation and the experimental determination of phonon dispersion curves and related thermodynamic quantities, such as vibrational entropy or free energy. A clear picture of the origin of vibrational entropy differences between phases in an alloy system is presented that goes beyond the traditional bond counting and volume change arguments. Vibrational entropy change can be attributed to the changes in chemical bond stiffness associated with the changes in bond length that take place during a phase transformation. This so-called ``bond stiffness vs. bond length'' interpretation both summarizes the key phenomenon driving vibrational entropy changes and provides a practical tool to model them.

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