Thermoelastic Properties of Olivine and Wadsleyite [Fe_x,Mg_(1-x)]_2SiO_4: Their Relationship to the 410 km Seismic Discontinuity

M. Núñez Valdez, Z. Wu, Y. G. Yu +1

We combine density functional theory (DFT) within the local density approximation (LDA), the quasiharmonic approximation (QHA), and a model of vibrational density of states (VDoS)…