A. Arya et al., FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS OF THE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE AND PHASE-STABILITY OF NI-MO ALLOYS, Journal of physics. Condensed matter (Print), 10(38), 1998, pp. 8459-8475
Self-consistent local density electronic structure calculations have b
een carried out on various fee-based ground-state ordered superstructu
res of Ni1-xMox alloys spanning the entire concentration range. Using
the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method, we have
calculated the volume-dependent total ground-state energies, and hence
the different equilibrium cohesive properties, as functions of the Mo
concentration. Following the 'transferability prescription' of Anders
en and co-workers, we have estimated the potential parameters of the c
onstituent atoms as embedded in the alloy and compared these with the
corresponding charge-self-consistent parameters for the intermetallic
compounds. The ground-state stability profile has been obtained for th
e first time for this family of Ni-Mo compounds. Moreover, we have tes
ted the applicability of the cluster expansion method (CEM) for parame
trizing the cohesive energies to estimate the volume-dependent effecti
ve cluster interactions (ECIs) under the octahedron-tetrahedron cluste
r approximation.