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High-entropy alloys have shown much interest and unusual materials properties. The stability of equimolar single-phase solid solution of five or more elements is likely to be rare and identifying the existence of such alloys has been very…

In this study, an efficient first-principles approach for calculating the thermodynamic properties of mixed metal oxides at high temperatures is demonstrated. More precisely, this procedure combines density functional theory and harmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-12 Joakim Brorsson , Ivana Staničić , Jonatan Gastaldi , Tobias Mattison , Anders Hellman

A general method is presented for modeling high entropy alloys as ensembles of randomly sampled, ordered configurations on a given lattice. Statistical mechanics is applied post hoc to derive the ensemble properties as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Andrew Novick , Quan Nguyen , Roman Garnett , Eric Toberer , Vladan Stevanović

Predicting phase stabilities of crystal polymorphs is central to computational materials science and chemistry. Such predictions are challenging because they first require searching for potential energy minima and then performing arduous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-15 Aleks Reinhardt , Chris J. Pickard , Bingqing Cheng

A grand canonical Monte Carlo method for the simulation of a simple colloid-polymer mixture called the AO model will be described. The phase separation known to occur in this model is driven by entropy. The phase diagram of the unmixing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. C. Vink

The method of Monte Carlo configuration interaction (MCCI) [1,2] is applied to the calculation of multipole moments. We look at the ground and excited state dipole moments in carbon monoxide. We then consider the dipole of NO, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 J. P. Coe , D. J. Taylor , M. J. Paterson

A first principles phase diagram calculation, that included van der Waals interactions, was performed for the system (1-X)$\cdot$MoS$_{2}$-(X)$\cdot$MoTe$_{2}$. Surprisingly, the predicted phase diagram has at least two ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-01 Benjamin P. Burton , Arunima K. Singh

In this study Mo-Nb-Ta-W refractory high-entropy alloys (R-HEAs) have been studied for their phase stability for a wide temperature range (100 K to 2000 K). The equilibrium thermodynamic phases are determined by the changes in enthalpy and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-16 Varnita Bajpai , Soumyadipta Maiti , Shashank Mishra , Beena Rai

The prediction of new high entropy oxides (HEOs) remains a profound challenge due to their inherent chemical complexity. In this work, we combine experimental and computational methods to search for new HEOs in the tetravalent $A$O$_2$…

While the ongoing search to discover new high-entropy systems is slowly expanding beyond metals, a rational and effective method for predicting "in silico" the solid solution forming ability of multi-component systems remains yet to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-16 Yoav Lederer , Cormac Toher , Kenneth S. Vecchio , Stefano Curtarolo

High-entropy oxides (HEOs) are a new class of materials that are promising for a wide range of applications. Designing HEOs needs to consider both geometric compatibility and electrical equilibrium. However, there is currently no available…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-09 Lei Tang , Zemin Li , Kepi Chen , Cuiwei Li , Xiaowen Zhang , Linan An

High-throughput methods enable accelerated discovery of novel materials in complex systems such as high-entropy alloys, which exhibit intricate phase stability across vast compositional spaces. Computational approaches, including Density…

Multicomponent transition metal carbides are promising for extreme-environment applications, but identifying compositions that are both synthesizable and hard remains challenging. We fine-tune the MACE machine-learned interatomic potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Xin Liu , Anirudh Raju Natarajan

The performance of density functional theory (DFT) approximations for predicting materials thermodynamics is typically assessed by comparing calculated and experimentally determined enthalpies of formation from elemental phases, {\Delta}Hf.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-08 Christopher J. Bartel , Alan W. Weimer , Stephan Lany , Charles B. Musgrave , Aaron M. Holder

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate various ground state properties of charged bosons in two dimensions, throughout the whole density range where the fluid phase is stable. Wigner crystallization is predicted at $r_s\simeq…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-01 S. De Palo , S. Conti , S. Moroni

The increasing demand for materials capable of withstanding high temperatures and harsh environments necessitates the discovery of advanced alloys. This study introduces a computational routine to predict solid-state phase stability and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-29 Tyler D. Doležal , Nick A. Valverde , Jodie Yuwono , Ryan Kemnitz

A comprehensive thermochemical database is constructed based on high-throughput first-principles phonon calculations of over 3000 atomic structures in Ni, Fe, and Co alloys involving a total of 26 elements including Al, B, C, Cr, Cu, Hf,…

Many different types of phases can form within alloys, from highly-ordered intermetallic compounds, to structurally-ordered but chemically-disordered solid solutions, and structurally-disordered (i.e. amorphous) metallic glasses. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-26 Cormac Toher , Stefano Curtarolo

The mechanical properties of complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) depend on their forming phases and corresponding structures, the prediction of the phase formation for a given CCA is essential to its discovery and applications. 541 sample…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jie Xiong , San-Qiang Shi , Tong-Yi Zhang

We build a comprehensive methodology for the fast computation of entropy across both solid and liquid phases. The proposed method utilizes a single trajectory of molecular dynamics (MD) to facilitate the calculation of entropy, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Qi-Jun Hong , Zi-Kui Liu