Ab initio free energy calculations on the polymorphs of iron at core conditions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 117, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 123-137

  Vočadlo, Lidunka ^a   Brodholt, John ^a   Alfè, Dario ^a   Gillan, Michael J ^b   Price, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core conditions; Iron; Polymorphs

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); INNER CORE; IRON; POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0040463033     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00092-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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