All "roads" lead to rocksalt structure
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| author | Jankousky, Matthew Chen, Helen Novick, Andrew Stevanović, Vladan |
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| contents | Rocksalt is the most common crystal structure among binary compounds. Moreover, no long-lived, metastable polymorphs are observed in compounds with the rocksalt ground state. We investigate the absence of polymorphism and the dominance of the rocksalt structure via first-principles random structure sampling and transformation kinetics modeling of three rocksalt compounds: MgO, TaC, and PbTe. Random structure sampling reveals that for all three systems the rocksalt local minimum on the potential energy surface is far larger than any other, making it statistically the most significant structure. The kinetics modeling shows that virtually all other relevant structures, including most of the 457 known A$_1$B$_1$ prototypes, transform rapidly to rocksalt, making it the only option at ambient conditions. These results explain the absence of polymorphism in binary rocksalts, answer why rocksalt is the structure of choice for high-entropy ceramics and disordered ternary nitrides, and help understand/predict metastable states in crystalline solids more generally. |
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| spellingShingle | All "roads" lead to rocksalt structure Jankousky, Matthew Chen, Helen Novick, Andrew Stevanović, Vladan Materials Science Rocksalt is the most common crystal structure among binary compounds. Moreover, no long-lived, metastable polymorphs are observed in compounds with the rocksalt ground state. We investigate the absence of polymorphism and the dominance of the rocksalt structure via first-principles random structure sampling and transformation kinetics modeling of three rocksalt compounds: MgO, TaC, and PbTe. Random structure sampling reveals that for all three systems the rocksalt local minimum on the potential energy surface is far larger than any other, making it statistically the most significant structure. The kinetics modeling shows that virtually all other relevant structures, including most of the 457 known A$_1$B$_1$ prototypes, transform rapidly to rocksalt, making it the only option at ambient conditions. These results explain the absence of polymorphism in binary rocksalts, answer why rocksalt is the structure of choice for high-entropy ceramics and disordered ternary nitrides, and help understand/predict metastable states in crystalline solids more generally. |
| title | All "roads" lead to rocksalt structure |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06843 |