We have extended, from order 12 through order 25, the high-temperature series expansions (in zero magnetic field) for the spin-spin correlations of the spinS Ising models on the square, simple-cubic and body-centered-cubic lattices. On the basis of this large set of data, we confirm accurately the validity of the scaling and universality hypotheses by resuming several tests which involve the co...

By combining weighted distances and distances based on neighbourhood sequences, a new family of distance functions with potentially low rotational dependency is obtained. The basic theory for these distance functions, including functional form of the distance between two points, is presented for the face-centered cubic grid and the body-centered cubic grid. By minimizing an error function, the ...

Recently, a distance function was defined on the face-centered cubic and body-centered cubic grids by combining weights and neighborhood sequences. These distances share many properties with traditional path-based distance functions, such as the city-block distance, but are less rotational dependent. We introduce four different error functions which are used to find the optimal weights and neig...

We determine the phase diagram of the phase field crystal model in three dimensions by using numerical free energy minimization methods. Previously published results, based on single mode approximations, have indicated that in addition to the uniform (liquid) phase, there would be regions of stability of body-centered cubic, hexagonal and stripe phases. We find that in addition to these, there ...

Plastic deformation behavior of Cu/Ni/W metallic multilayers with individual layer thickness ranging from 5 nm to 300 nm is investigated by nanoindentation testing. The experimental results reveal that the composite still exhibits indentation-induced plastic deformation instability and the loss of strain hardening ability at the nanometer scale even if the composite contains two kinds of layer ...

High-pressure torsion (HPT) and thermal annealing were applied to a face-centered cubic as-cast Al0.3CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy. Processing by HPT produced a nanostructure with a higher incremental hardness than in most HPT single-phase materials and subsequent annealing at appropriate temperatures gave an ordered body-centered cubic secondary phase with an additional increase in hardness. The...

Although silicon clusters (Sin) exhibit a diversity of 3-dimensional shapes, a cubic form has not been found to be stable in their small size of 8 Si atoms. While the cubane C8H8 is wellknown for chemists, the octasilacubane Si8H8 possessing a cubic structure has never been synthesized. Using quantum chemical computations we find that doping can lead to stable cubic silicon clusters such as Be@...

According to classical grain growth laws, grain growth is driven by the minimization of surface energy and will continue until a single grain prevails. These laws do not take into account the lattice anisotropy and the details of the microscopic rearrangement of mass between grains. Here we consider coarsening of body-centered-cubic polycrystalline materials in three dimensions using the phase ...

Alkali metals exhibit unexpected structures and electronic behavior at high pressures. Compression of metallic sodium (Na) to 200 GPa leads to the stability of a wide-band-gap insulator with the double hexagonal hP4 structure. Post-hP4 structures remain unexplored, but they are important for addressing the question of the pressure at which Na reverts to a metal. Here, we report the reentrant me...

Ternary Al70Cu20Fe10 alloy nano-composites prepared by mechanical alloying are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS). The results indicate that after milled for 10 hours, the coordination environment around Cu atoms is changed largely and becomes disordered, but the local structure of Fe atoms still remains as that of α-Fe. This indicates the formin...