Ab initio quasi-harmonic thermoelasticity of molybdenum at high temperature and pressure
arXiv:2406.16634 · doi:10.1063/5.0212162
Abstract
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 contributions to the free energy. The quasi-harmonic temperature dependent elastic constants are calculated and compared with existing experiments and with the quasi-static approximation. We find that the quasi-harmonic approximation allows a much better interpretation of the experimental data confirming the trend found previously in other metals. Using the Voigt-Reuss-Hill average we predict the compressional and shear sound velocities of polycrystalline molybdenum as a function of pressure for several temperatures which might be accessible in experiments.
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