First principles validation of energy barriers in Ni75Al25

Author:

Fisher AdamORCID,Staunton Julie BORCID,Wu HuanORCID,Brommer PeterORCID

Abstract

Abstract Precipitates in nickel-based superalloys form during heat treatment on a time scale inaccessible to direct molecular dynamics simulation, but can be studied using kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) modelling. This requires reliable values for the barrier energies separating distinct configurations over the trajectory of the system. In this study, we validate vacancy migration barriers found with the Activation-Relaxation Technique nouveau (ARTn) method in partially ordered Ni75Al25 with a monovacancy using published potentials for the atomic interactions against first-principles methods. In a first step, we confirm that the ARTn barrier energies agree with those determined with the nudged elastic band (NEB) method. As the number of atoms used in those calculations is too great for direct ab initio calculations, we cut the cell size to 255 atoms, thus controlling finite size effects. We then use the plane-wave density functional theory code CASTEP and its inbuilt NEB method in the smaller cells. This provides us with a continuous validation chain from first principles to KMC simulations with interatomic potentials (IPs). We evaluate the barrier energies of five further IPs with NEB, demonstrating that none yields values with sufficient reliability for KMC simulations, with some of them failing completely. This is a first step towards quantifying the errors incurred in KMC simulations of precipitate formation and evolution.

Funder

National Structural Integrity Research Centre

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems

Sulis Tier 2 HPC platform

Publisher

IOP Publishing

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