Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations
The simple chemistry and structure of quartz together with its abundance in nature and its piezoelectric properties make convenient its employment for several applications, from engineering to Earth sciences. For these purposes, the quartz equations of state, thermoelastic and thermodynamic properti...
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| description | The simple chemistry and structure of quartz together with its abundance in nature and its piezoelectric properties make convenient its employment for several applications, from engineering to Earth sciences. For these purposes, the quartz equations of state, thermoelastic and thermodynamic properties have been studied since decades. Alpha quartz is stable up to 2.5 GPa at room temperature where it converts to coesite, and at ambient pressure up to 847 K where it transforms to the beta phase. In particular, the displacive phase transition at 847 K at ambient pressure is driven by intrinsic anharmonicity effects (soft-mode phase transition) and its precise mechanism is difficult to be investigated experimentally. Therefore, we studied these anharmonic effects by means of ab initio calculations in the framework of the statistical thermodynamics approach. We determined the principal thermodynamic quantities accounting for the intrinsic anharmonicity and compared them against experimental data. Our results up to 700 K show a very good agreement with experiments. The same procedures and algorithms illustrated here can also be applied to determine the thermodynamic properties of other crystalline phases possibly affected by intrinsic anharmonic effects, that could partially invalidate the standard quasi-harmonic approach. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2da6f0a4d12c4d0bb2c077b10369d7952023-11-22T18:11:58ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002021-10-012310136610.3390/e23101366Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles CalculationsMara Murri0Mauro Prencipe1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, I-20126 Milano, ItalyEarth Sciences Department, University of Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Torino, ItalyThe simple chemistry and structure of quartz together with its abundance in nature and its piezoelectric properties make convenient its employment for several applications, from engineering to Earth sciences. For these purposes, the quartz equations of state, thermoelastic and thermodynamic properties have been studied since decades. Alpha quartz is stable up to 2.5 GPa at room temperature where it converts to coesite, and at ambient pressure up to 847 K where it transforms to the beta phase. In particular, the displacive phase transition at 847 K at ambient pressure is driven by intrinsic anharmonicity effects (soft-mode phase transition) and its precise mechanism is difficult to be investigated experimentally. Therefore, we studied these anharmonic effects by means of ab initio calculations in the framework of the statistical thermodynamics approach. We determined the principal thermodynamic quantities accounting for the intrinsic anharmonicity and compared them against experimental data. Our results up to 700 K show a very good agreement with experiments. The same procedures and algorithms illustrated here can also be applied to determine the thermodynamic properties of other crystalline phases possibly affected by intrinsic anharmonic effects, that could partially invalidate the standard quasi-harmonic approach.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/10/1366quartzanharmonicityphonon dispersionphase transitionbulk modulus |
| spellingShingle | Mara Murri Mauro Prencipe Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations Entropy quartz anharmonicity phonon dispersion phase transition bulk modulus |
| title | Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations |
| title_full | Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations |
| title_fullStr | Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations |
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| title_short | Anharmonic Effects on the Thermodynamic Properties of Quartz from First Principles Calculations |
| title_sort | anharmonic effects on the thermodynamic properties of quartz from first principles calculations |
| topic | quartz anharmonicity phonon dispersion phase transition bulk modulus |
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