Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1601854 | Intermetallics | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
A method to treat a part of atomic arrangements in a crystalline structure as hypothetical clusters was applied to analyze the similarity in local atomic arrangements between a noncrystalline structure and its corresponding crystalline structure. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation revealed that a metastable cubic Zr2Ni crystalline structure transforms into a noncrystalline structure by permitting random cluster-rotations followed by annealing at a low temperature. The analyses for pair-distribution and interference functions exhibit a feature of noncrystalline structure, and qualitatively reproduce the features of experimental data.
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Authors
A. Takeuchi, K. Yubuta, Y. Yokoyama, A.R. Yavari, A. Inoue,