Calculation of Elastic Constants of $\gamma Ce$

Abstract

In this paper we calculated the elastic constants of $\gamma Ce$. The calculations were performed self-consistently using the full potential augmented plane wave plus local orbital (FP-APW+lo) method. We used the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) to calculate the exchange-correlation energy. The elastic constants were obtained from the second order derivatives of energy with respect to lattice parameters. In this work we introduced a method to impose a deformation to the primary structure to simplify our calculations changing an fcc structure to bct.