Open AccessEquation of state of solid krypton from correlated quantum chemistry calculations
Author(s) -
Na Wu,
Yang Jiao,
Fang Xiao,
Ling-Cang Cai,
Chunling Tian
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.63.146102
Subject(s) - krypton , many body theory , cluster expansion , physics , atomic physics , lattice (music) , cluster (spacecraft) , equation of state , materials science , molecular physics , thermodynamics , condensed matter physics , xenon , computer science , acoustics , programming language
The two-, three- and four-body interaction energies in face-centered cubic (fcc) krypton are evaluated using the many-body expansion method and the coupled cluster theory with full single and double excitations plus perturbative treatment of triples, and both self-consistent-field (SCF) Hartree-Fock energy and correlation one are accurately determined in a wide volume range (from 27 to 4 cm3/mol). All different three- and four-atom clusters existing in the first three and two nearest and two neighbor shells of fcc lattice are considered. It is found that the three-body interaction energy is positive at low compression, where the dispersive forces play a dominant role, with increasing the compression the three-body contribution becomes attractive, and the SCF energy overwhelms the dispersive one. At pressures higher than 30 GPa, the four-body contribution becomes important and significantly cancels the over-softening effects of the three-body potential. It shows that the combination of the four-body effects with two- and three-body interactions leads to an excellent agreement with the measurements from the equation of state in the whole experimental range of 0-130 GPa.