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Ground State Analysis on the Fcc Lattice With Four Pair Interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

Gerardo D. Garbulsky ,
Patrick D. Tepesch  and
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerardo D. Garbulsky
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA 02139
Patrick D. Tepesch
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA 02139
Gerbrand Ceder
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

We have partially solved the ground state problem of binary alloys on the fcc lattice with pair interactions up to the fourth nearest neighbor distance. Our results extend the study presented by Kanamori and Kakehashi [1], releasing the constraint they imposed on the nearest neighbor correlation. The solution we present increases the number of possible ground state structures by an order of magnitude with respect to previous results. We have applied both the polyhedron and the enumeration method. The latter proved more powerful when including interactions beyond the second nearest neighbor distance.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 291: Symposium O – Materials Theory and Modeling , 1992 , 259
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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