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    Finite-temperature interplay of structural stability, chemical complexity, and elastic properties of bcc multicomponent alloys from ab initio trained machine-learning potentials
    (2021) Gubaev, Konstantin; Ikeda, Yuji; Tasnádi, Ferenc; Neugebauer, Jörg; Shapeev, Alexander V.; Grabowski, Blazej; Körmann, Fritz
    An active learning approach to train machine-learning interatomic potentials (moment tensor potentials) for multicomponent alloys to ab initio data is presented. Employing this approach, the disordered body-centered cubic (bcc) TiZrHfTax system with varying Ta concentration is investigated via molecular dynamics simulations. Our results show a strong interplay between elastic properties and the structural ω phase stability, strongly affecting the mechanical properties. Based on these insights we systematically screen composition space for regimes where elastic constants show little or no temperature dependence (elinvar effect).
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    Thermally-activated dislocation mobility in bcc metals : an accelerated molecular dynamics study
    (2021) Grabowski, Blazej; Zotov, Nikolay
    Plastic deformation in metals is controlled by dislocation density and mobility. In bcc metals the mobility of screw dislocations, which takes place by temperature- and stress-driven nucleation of critical kink-pairs, is most essential for deformation. However, the critical resolved shear stresses at low temperatures, as determined from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations performed at constant strain rate, are typically 2–3 times larger than the yield stresses measured experimentally. Here, an accelerated MD procedure is developed and employed to investigate the onset of dislocation mobility in the prototypical system bcc Nb. The method combines constant strain and temperature MD with hyperdynamics, using a bond-boost potential. We demonstrate, with a careful statistical analysis, that the method enables nucleation of critical kink-pairs and the determination of the Gibbs energy of kink-pair formation from accelerated MD simulations at experimentally-measured shear stresses.
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    Li5Sn, the most lithium-rich binary stannide : a combined experimental and computational study
    (2022) Stelzer, Robert U.; Ikeda, Yuji; Srinivasan, Prashanth; Lehmann, Tanja S.; Grabowski, Blazej; Niewa, Rainer
    From reaction of excess lithium with tin, we isolate well-crystallized Li5Sn and solve the crystal structure from single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. The orthorhombic structure (space group Cmcm) features the same coordination polyhedra around tin and lithium as previously predicted by electronic structure calculations for this composition, however differently arranged. An extensive ab initio analysis, including thermodynamic integration using Langevin dynamics in combination with a machine-learning potential (moment tensor potential), is conducted to understand the thermodynamic stability of this Cmcm Li5Sn structure observed in our experiments. Among the 108 Li5Sn structures systematically derived using the structure enumeration algorithm, including the experimental Cmcm structure and those obtained in previous ab initio studies, another new structure with the space group Immm is found to be energetically most stable at 0 K. This computationally discovered Immm structure is also found to be thermodynamically more stable than the Cmcm structure at finite temperatures, indicating that the Cmcm Li5Sn structure observed in our experiments is favored likely due to kinetic reasons rather than thermodynamics.
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    Structural and magnetic properties of newly found BaFeO2.667 synthesized by oxidizing BaFeO2.5 obtained via nebulized spray pyrolysis
    (2021) Wollstadt, Stephan; Ikeda, Yuji; Sarkar, Abhishek; Vasala, Sami; Fasel, Claudia; Alff, Lambert; Kruk, Robert; Grabowski, Blazej; Clemens, Oliver
    A new vacancy-ordered perovskite-type compound Ba3Fe3O8 (BaFeO2.667) was prepared by oxidizing BaFeO2.5 (P21/c) with the latter compound obtained by a spray-pyrolysis technique. The structure of Ba3Fe3O8 was found to be isotypic to Ba3Fe3O7F (P21/m) and can be written as Ba3Fe3+2Fe4+1O8. Mössbauer spectroscopy and ab initio calculations were used to confirm mixed iron oxidation states, showing allocation of the tetravalent iron species on the tetrahedral site and octahedral as well as square pyramidal coordination for the trivalent species within a G-type antiferromagnetic ordering. The uptake and release of oxygen was investigated over a broad temperature range from RT to 1100 °C under pure oxygen and ambient atmosphere via a combination of DTA/TG and variable temperature diffraction measurements. The compound exhibits a strong lattice enthalpy driven reduction to monoclinic and cubic BaFeO2.5 at elevated temperatures.
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    Ab initio surface free energies of tungsten with full account of thermal excitations
    (2022) Forslund, Axel; Ruban, Andrei
    The surface free energies of seven different facets of tungsten (W) are obtained up to the melting point with full account of all the relevant thermal excitations; in particular, thermal atomic vibrations, electronic excitations, and their mutual coupling. The latter is done using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations coupled with the thermodynamic integration technique. In this way, the calculations contain almost no error but the one related to the used exchange-correlation functional, which makes the results truly first principles. The obtained results are compared with previous quasiharmonic calculations for the surface free energies of W and experimental data. The anharmonic contribution is, as expected, important for open surfaces at high temperatures, which leads to a temperature dependence of the surface energy anisotropy. The calculated Wulff shapes and surface energies are in excellent agreement with experimental data close to the melting point, where the crystalline structure of the surface layers is destroyed by a dramatic mobility of the atoms there.
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    Crystal structure and phase stability of Co2N: a combined first-principles and experimental study
    (2021) Ikeda, Yuji; Lehmann, Tanja S.; Widenmeyer, Marc; Coduri, Mauro; Grabowski, Blazej; Niewa, Rainer
    The crystal structure and phase stability of Co2N are revisited based on experiments and first-principles calculations. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) measurements and Rietveld refinements clearly confirm that the stable crystal structure of Co2N is an isotype of η-Fe2C and Co2C with the space group Pnnm rather than the closely related ζ-Fe2N with the space group Pbcn. The refined lattice parameters of Co2N in the Pnnm structure are a = 4.6108(1) Å, b = 4.3498(1) Å, c = 2.85592(7) Å, obtained from X-ray diffraction using synchrotron radiation. Furthermore, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) with subsequent diffraction experiments reveal an endothermal transition to an ε-type order at 398 °C followed by an exothermal decomposition at 446 °C. First-principles density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations including the Hubbard U correction (DFT+U) demonstrate that it is essential for transition metal nitrides to consider strong electron correlation to predict the correct experimental structure and magnetic state. In particular, an effective value of Ueff = 2.75 eV can be utilized to obtain an antiferromagnetic Pnnm phase of Co2N in agreement with experiments.
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    Magnetic bands producing a monoclinic magnetic structure in NiO, FeO, MnO, and a tetragonal one in CoO
    (2022) Krüger, Ekkehard
    In a foregoing paper, the author reported evidence that the multi-spin-axis magnetic structure proposed in 1964 by van Laar is realized in antiferromagnetic CoO. Within the nonadiabatic Heisenberg model, this tetragonal body-centered structure is generated by atomic-like electrons in a special magnetic band of CoO, a mechanism that may emerge only because the nonadiabatic Heisenberg model goes beyond the adiabatic approximation. This paper compares the band structures of the transition-metal monoxides NiO, CoO, FeO, and MnO, and shows that only CoO possesses a magnetic band which may produce the tetragonal magnetic structure proposed by van Laar. The magnetic bands of the other monoxides, NiO, FeO, and MnO, are clearly related to the monoclinic base-centered magnetic structure experimentally observed in these materials.
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    Wannier states of FCC symmetry qualifying paramagnetic NiO to be a Mott insulator
    (2020) Krüger, Ekkehard
    This letter extends my recent paper on antiferromagnetic NiO [Structural Distortion Stabilizing the Antiferromagnetic and Insulating Ground State of NiO, Symmetry 2020, 12(1), 56] by including also the paramagnetic phase of this compound. I report evidence that paramagnetic NiO possesses a narrow, roughly half-filled energy band that produces a nonadiabatic atomic-like motion providing the basis for a Mott insulator in the paramagnetic phase. While the atomic-like motion operating in the antiferromagnetic phase is adapted to the symmetry of the antiferromagnetic state, in the paramagnetic phase the related localized states are represented by optimally localized Wannier functions possessing the full fcc symmetry of paramagnetic NiO. The nonadiabatic Wannier states are twofold degenerate, have d-like symmetry and are situated at the Ni atoms.
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    Correlation analysis of strongly fluctuating atomic volumes, charges, and stresses in body-centered cubic refractory high-entropy alloys
    (2020) Ishibashi, Shoji; Ikeda, Yuji; Körmann, Fritz; Grabowski, Blazej; Neugebauer, Jörg
    Local lattice distortions in a series of body-centered cubic alloys, including refractory high-entropy alloys, are investigated by means of atomic volumes, atomic charges, and atomic stresses defined by the Bader charge analysis based on first-principles calculations. Analyzing the extensive data sets, we find large distributions of these atomic properties for each element in each alloy, indicating a large impact of the varying local chemical environments. We show that these local-environment effects can be well understood and captured already by the first and the second nearest neighbor shells. Based on this insight, we employ linear regression models up to the second nearest neighbor shell to accurately predict these atomic properties. Finally, we find that the elementwise-averaged values of the atomic properties correlate linearly with the averaged valence-electron concentration of the considered alloys.
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    Magnetic structure of CoO
    (2021) Krüger, Ekkehard
    The paper reports evidence that the multi-spin-axis magnetic structure proposed in 1964 by van Laar is realized in antiferromagnetic CoO. This tetragonal spin arrangement produces both the strong tetragonal and the weaker monoclinic distortion experimentally observed in this material. The monoclinic distortion is proposed to be a "monoclinic-like" distortion of the array of the oxygen atoms, comparable with the rhombohedral-like distortion of the oxygen atoms recently proposed to be present in NiO and MnO. The monoclinic-like distortion has no influence on the tetragonal magnetic structure, which is generated by a special nonadiabatic atomic-like motion of the electrons near the Fermi level. It is argued that it is this atomic-like motion that qualifies CoO to be a Mott~insulator.