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Thorium in tungsten: construction of interatomic EAM potentials from ab initio data

Author: Eberhard Bernd   Haider Ferdinand  

Publisher: IOP Publishing

ISSN: 0965-0393

Source: Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol.21, Iss.5, 2013-07, pp. : 55019-55037

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Abstract

The interatomic interaction potential of tungsten and thorium crystals and those of hypothetical tungsten and thorium alloys within the embedded atom approach are considered. The corresponding Ansatz functions are fitted against full potential linear augmented plane wave data of real tungsten- and thorium- and hypothetical tungsten-thorium-crystals. The result is interatomic potentials, ready for use within classical molecular dynamics schemes. A cross check of the resulting force scheme derived by comparison of ab initio and classical molecular dynamics data is provided. Furthermore, we used the potentials to calculate the phonon dispersion relations, which then serve as an additional check.

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