Ordering effects in Disordered Metallic Alloys

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis paper reviews recent progress in the theory of the atomic and electronic structure of disordered metallic alloys containing transition metals (TM). Realistic structural models are obtained using molecular dynamics simulations based on pair interatomic forces derived from a tight-binding-bond method. This approach describes quantitatively compositional trends in chemical and topological short-range order in agreement with diffraction experiments.