Wednesday, February 20, 2013

1302.4643 (I. K. Razumov et al.)

Effect of magnetism on kinetics of "gamma"-"alfa" transformation and
pattern formation in iron
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I. K. Razumov, Yu. N. Gornostyrev, M. I. Katsnelson
Kinetics of polymorphous "gamma"-"alfa" transformation in Fe is studied numerically within a model taking into account both lattice and magnetic degrees of freedom, based on first-principle calculations of the total energy for different magnetic states. It is shown that magnetoelastic phenomena, namely, a strong sensitivity of the potential relief along the Bain deformation path to the magnetic state, are crucial for the picture of the transformation. With the temperature increase, a scenario of the phase transformation evolves from a homogeneous lattice instability at TMs. In the latter case, a stage of formation of a tweed-like structure occurs, with a strong short-range order and slow interphase fluctuations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4643

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