Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Physics Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 5 of 5

Full-Text Articles in Physics

Modified Broyden’S Method For Accelerating Convergence In Self-Consistent Calculations, Duane D. Johnson Dec 1988

Modified Broyden’S Method For Accelerating Convergence In Self-Consistent Calculations, Duane D. Johnson

Duane D. Johnson

A modification to Broyden’s method for obtaining stable and computationally efficient convergence in self-consistent calculations is developed and discussed. The method incorporates the advantages of two schemes proposed by Srivastava and by Vanderbilt and Louie without any increase in complexity. Its improvement over their methods is discussed. The present method is compared with two other widely used convergence methods, simple mixing and Anderson’s method, for the case of the disordered binary alloy Ni0.35Fe0.65 on the verge of a magnetic instability and is shown to be much improved in stability and rate of convergence.


Slip, Twinning, And Fracture At A Grain Boundary In The L12 Ordered Structure—Aς = 9 Tilt Boundary, Alexander H. King, M. H. Yoo Oct 1988

Slip, Twinning, And Fracture At A Grain Boundary In The L12 Ordered Structure—Aς = 9 Tilt Boundary, Alexander H. King, M. H. Yoo

Alexander H. King

The role of interaction between slip dislocations and a Σ = 9 tilt boundary in localized microplastic deformation, cleavage, or intergranular fracture in the Li2 ordered structure has been analyzed by using the anisotropic elasticity theory of dislocations and fracture. Screw superpartials cross slip easily at the boundary onto the (1$\overline 1$1) and the (001) planes at low and high temperatures, respectively. Transmission of primary slip dislocations onto the conjugate slip system occurs with a certain degree of difficulty, which is eased by localized disordering. When the transmission is impeded, cleavage fracture on the ($\overline 1$11) plane is predicted to …


Effects Of Chemical And Magnetic Disorder In Fe0.50mn0.50, Duane D. Johnson, F. J. Pinski, G. M. Stocks Jan 1988

Effects Of Chemical And Magnetic Disorder In Fe0.50mn0.50, Duane D. Johnson, F. J. Pinski, G. M. Stocks

Duane D. Johnson

We present the results of first‐principles calculations of the total energy and spin‐polarized electronic structure of disordered fcc Fe0.50Mn0.50. These self‐consistent calculations were performed using the Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method and the coherent‐potential approximation (KKR‐CPA), using the local‐spin‐density approximation to treat exchange and correlation. We use a lattice constant of a=6.80 a.u.; information about stability can be inferred from calculated pressure and energy. The moments on the Fe and Mn sites are large but antiparallel to each other, resulting in a small net magnetization. A comparison of the electronic structure is made for fcc Fe, Mn, and FeMn in both the ferromagnetic …


Theoretical Study Of The Hyperfine Fields Of Ni And Fe In Fcc Ni,Fe, Alloys, H. Ebert, H. Winter, B. L. Gyorffy, Duane D. Johnson, F. J. Pinski Jan 1988

Theoretical Study Of The Hyperfine Fields Of Ni And Fe In Fcc Ni,Fe, Alloys, H. Ebert, H. Winter, B. L. Gyorffy, Duane D. Johnson, F. J. Pinski

Duane D. Johnson

Using charge self-consistent cluster Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker coherent potential approximation (KKR-CPA) band-structure calculations, the authors have studied the hyperfine fields on both Ni and Fe sites in the NixFe1-x alloys. To elucidate the influence of relativistic effects the hyperfine matrix elements have been calculated nonrelativistically as well as completely relativistically The dependence of the hyperfine fields on the environment of a given site has been studied by performing calculations for various atomic configurations around that site. The results of the work are compared with other theoretical data and with experiment.


Spectral Momentum Density From Graphite From (E,2e) Spectroscopy: Comparison With First Principles Calculations, Chao Gao, A. L. Ritter, Jr Dennison, N. A. W. Holzwarth Jan 1988

Spectral Momentum Density From Graphite From (E,2e) Spectroscopy: Comparison With First Principles Calculations, Chao Gao, A. L. Ritter, Jr Dennison, N. A. W. Holzwarth

Journal Articles

We have measured the spectral momentum density p(E,q) of graphite by (e,2e) spectroscopy for momentum parallel and perpendicular to the crystal c axis. In the independent-electron approximation, p(E,q) = ΣG |Uk(G)|2 δ(q-k-G)δ(E-E(k)) where the one-electron wave function is Ψk(r) = eik•rΣGUk(G)eiG•r and G is a reciprocal-lattice vector. The measurements covered a range of momentum parallel to the c axis equal to 0 ≤ |q| ≤ 1.84Å-1 and a …