Wednesday, January 9, 2013

1301.1623 (Bertrand Dupé et al.)

Mechanism for the α -> ε phase transition in iron    [PDF]

Bertrand Dupé, Bernard Amadon, Yves-Patrick Pellegrini, Christophe Denoual
The mechanism of the {\alpha}-{\epsilon} transition in iron is reconsidered. A path in the Burgers description of the bcc/hcp transition different from those previously considered is proposed. It relies on the assumption that shear and shuffle are decoupled and requires some peculiar magnetic order, different from that of {\alpha} and {\epsilon} phases as found in Density-Functional Theory. Finally, we put forward an original mechanism for this transition, based on successive shuffle motion of layers, which is akin to a nucleation-propagation process rather than to some uniform motion.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1623

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