Atomic diffusion mechanisms in a binary metallic melt

Voigtmann T, Meyer A, Holland-Moritz D, Stüber S, Hansen T, Unruh T (2008)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2008

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Publisher: EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

Book Volume: 82

Journal Issue: 6

DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/82/66001

Abstract

The relation between static structure and dynamics as measured through the diffusion coefficients in viscous multicomponent metallic melts is elucidated by the example of the binary alloy Zr(64)Ni(36), by a combination of neutron-scattering experiments and mode-coupling theory of the glass transition. Comparison with a hard-sphere mixture shows that the relation between the different self diffusion coefficients strongly depends on chemical short-range ordering. For the Zr-Ni example, the theory predicts both diffusivities to be practically identical. The kinetics of concentration fluctuations is dramatically slower than that of self-diffusion, but the overall interdiffusion coefficient is equally large or larger due to a purely thermodynamic prefactor. This result is a general feature for non-demixing dense melts, irrespective of chemical short-range order. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2008.

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APA:

Voigtmann, T., Meyer, A., Holland-Moritz, D., Stüber, S., Hansen, T., & Unruh, T. (2008). Atomic diffusion mechanisms in a binary metallic melt. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 82(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/66001

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Voigtmann, Thomas, et al. "Atomic diffusion mechanisms in a binary metallic melt." EPL - Europhysics Letters 82.6 (2008).

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