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We present ab-initio calculations of the quasi-harmonic temperature dependent elastic constants. The isothermal elastic constants are calculated at each temperature as second derivatives of the Helmholtz free energy with respect to strain…
First-principles quasi-harmonic calculations play a very important role in mineral physics because they can accurately predict the structure and thermodynamic properties of materials at pressure and temperature conditions that are still…
A comprehensive, critical study of the vibrational, thermodynamic and thermoelastic properties of bcc iron is presented, using well established semi-empirical embedded-atom method potentials available in the literature. Classical molecular…
We have investigated the finite temperature elastic properties of AlRE (RE=Y, Tb, Pr, Nd, Dy) with B2-type structures from first principles. The phonon free energy and thermal expansion is obtained from the quasiharmonic approach based on…
We calculate the temperature-dependent elastic constants of palladium, platinum, copper and gold within the quasi-harmonic approximation using a first-principles approach and evaluating numerically the second derivatives of the Helmholtz…
To study temperature dependent elastic constants, a new computational method is proposed by combining continuum elasticity theory and first principles calculations. A Gibbs free energy function with one variable with respect to strain at…
We investigate the equation of state and elastic properties of nonmagnetic hcp iron at high pressures and high temperatures using the first principles linear response linear-muffin-tin-orbital method in the generalized-gradient…
We investigate the basic thermal, mechanical and structural properties of body centred cubic iron ($\alpha$-Fe) at several temperatures and positive loading by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations in conjunction with the embedded-atom…
We present the ab-initio thermoelastic properties of body-centered cubic molybdenum under extreme conditions obtained within the quasi-harmonic approximation including both the vibrational and the electronic thermal excitations…
The accurate thermoelastic properties and thermal conductivity are crucial in understanding the thermal evolution of the Martian core. A fitting method based on the ab initio calculated pressure-volume-temperature data is proposed in the…
We investigate the equation of state and elastic properties of hcp iron at high pressures and high temperatures using first principles linear response linear-muffin-tin-orbital method in the generalized-gradient approximation. We calculate…
The free energy and other thermodynamic properties of hexagonal-close-packed iron are calculated by direct {\em ab initio} methods over a wide range of pressures and temperatures relevant to the Earth's core. The {\em ab initio}…
The effect of hydrostatic strain and of interstitial hydrogen on the elastic properties of $\alpha$-iron is investigated using \textit{ab initio} density-functional theory calculations. We find that the cubic elastic constants and the…
Computing the temperature and stress dependence of the full elastic constant tensor from first-principles in non-cubic materials remains a challenging problem. Here we circumvent the aforementioned challenge via the generalized…
A tight-binding model is fit to first-principles calculations for copper that include structures distorted according to elastic constants and high-symmetry phonon modes. With the resulting model the first-principles-based phonon dispersion…
The electronic behavior of various solid metals (Al, Ni, Cu, Au, Ti, and W) under ultrashort laser irradiation is investigated by means of density functional theory. Successive stages of extreme nonequilibrium on picosecond time scale…
The diffusion of tungsten in {\alpha}-iron is important for the application of ferritic-iron alloys to thermal power plants. These data, over a wide temperature range across the Curie temperature, have been recently reported. We show that…
The structural, electronic, mechanical and thermal properties of Ir$_{1-x}$Rh$_{x}$ alloys were studied systematically using ab initio density functional theory at different concentrations (x = 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00). A Special…
The simplest anharmonic characteristics of Ir and Rh are discussed in the framework of a previously developed simple pseudopotential model which describes the elastic moduli, phonon spectra and the lattice heat capacity in the harmonic…