The first-principles study on the doping effect of Re in Ni3Al

Using first-principles density function for molecules method (DMol) and discrete variational method (DVM) based on the density functional theory, we studied the doping effect of Re in Ni3Al. The structure relaxation and the alloying energy show that Re has a strong Al site preference and leads to the local deformation, which is in agreement with the experimental results and other theoretical results. In addition, the charge density difference and the bond order show that Re can strongly enhance the interatomic interaction between the nearest neighbor atoms. From the density of states and the Pauli spectrum, we find that resonance states and localized states are induced by doping Re, and the doped Re atom forms the hybridized bond with the nearest neighbor atoms.