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Ab Initio Study of Screw Dislocations in Mo and Ta: A new picture of plasticity in bcc transition metals

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, T. A. Arias

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/9908110

Abstract

We report the first ab initio density-functional study of <111> screw dislocations cores in the bcc transition metals Mo and Ta. Our results suggest a new picture of bcc plasticity with symmetric and compact dislocation cores, contrary to the presently accepted picture based on continuum and interatomic potentials. Core energy scales in this new picture are in much better agreement with the Peierls energy barriers to dislocation motion suggested by experiments.

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