Short-range order in the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy from cluster expansion

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Main Authors: Chen, Wei, Rignanese, Gian-Marco, Hautier, Geoffroy
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author Chen, Wei
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Hautier, Geoffroy
author_facet Chen, Wei
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Hautier, Geoffroy
contents We investigate the short-range order (SRO) and phase stability of the equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy using cluster expansion supplemented by an eigen-decomposition analysis of the SRO parameters. Our results reveal that the primary ordering behavior is determined by strong Cr-Cr repulsive interactions, complemented by attractive heteroatomic Cr-$X$ pairs in the first nearest-neighbor shell. This chemical affinity is consistent with the emergence of ordered local environments and appears to be a major contributor to the primary order-disorder transition. At lower temperatures, the spectral SRO analysis suggests two additional lower-temperature instabilities: a collective ordering instability and an Fe-rich local clustering instability.
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spellingShingle Short-range order in the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy from cluster expansion
Chen, Wei
Rignanese, Gian-Marco
Hautier, Geoffroy
Materials Science
We investigate the short-range order (SRO) and phase stability of the equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy using cluster expansion supplemented by an eigen-decomposition analysis of the SRO parameters. Our results reveal that the primary ordering behavior is determined by strong Cr-Cr repulsive interactions, complemented by attractive heteroatomic Cr-$X$ pairs in the first nearest-neighbor shell. This chemical affinity is consistent with the emergence of ordered local environments and appears to be a major contributor to the primary order-disorder transition. At lower temperatures, the spectral SRO analysis suggests two additional lower-temperature instabilities: a collective ordering instability and an Fe-rich local clustering instability.
title Short-range order in the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy from cluster expansion
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18219