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EAM_Dynamo_MendelevHanSrolovitz_2003Potential5_Fe__MO_942420706858_006

Interatomic potential for Iron (Fe).
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EAM potential (LAMMPS cubic hermite tabulation) for Fe developed by Mendelev et al. (2003); Potential #5 v006
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Two procedures were developed to fit interatomic potentials of the embedded-atom method (EAM) form and applied to determine a potential which describes crystalline and liquid iron. While both procedures use perfect crystal and crystal defect data, the first procedure also employs the first-principles forces in a model liquid and the second procedure uses experimental liquid structure factor data. These additional types of information were incorporated to ensure more reasonable descriptions of atomic interactions at small separations than is provided using standard approaches, such as fitting to the universal binding energy relation. The new potentials (provided herein) are, on average, in better agreement with the experimental or first-principles lattice parameter, elastic constants, point-defect energies, bcc–fcc transformation energy, liquid density, liquid structure factor, melting temperature and other properties than other existing EAM iron potentials.

This is potential #5 from [M.I. Mendelev, S. Han, D.J. Srolovitz, G.J. Ackland, D.Y. Sun and M. Asta, Phil. Mag. 83, 3977-3994 (2003)].
Species
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Fe
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Note that there is a typographical error in the table of parameters for this potential in the paper describing it [1]. This is potential is suitable for the simulation of the bcc Fe or solidification. For simulation of the fcc phase, one can use the Fe part from the Fe-Ni-Cr potential developed by Mendelev instead
(https://openkim.org/id/EAM_Dynamo__MD_120291908751_005).
Content Origin http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/potentials/Fe.html
Contributor Mikhail I. Mendelev
Maintainer Mikhail I. Mendelev
Developer Deyan Sun
Mikhail I. Mendelev
Graeme J. Ackland
David J. Srolovitz
Seungwu Han
Mark Asta
Published on KIM 2025
How to Cite

This Model originally published in [1] is archived in OpenKIM [2-5].

[1] Mendelev MI, Han S, Srolovitz DJ, Ackland GJ, Sun DY, Asta M. Development of new interatomic potentials appropriate for crystalline and liquid iron. Philosophical Magazine. 2003;83(35):3977–94. doi:10.1080/14786430310001613264 — (Primary Source) A primary source is a reference directly related to the item documenting its development, as opposed to other sources that are provided as background information.

[2] Sun D, Mendelev MI, Ackland GJ, Srolovitz DJ, Han S, Asta M. EAM potential (LAMMPS cubic hermite tabulation) for Fe developed by Mendelev et al. (2003); Potential #5 v006. OpenKIM; 2025. doi:10.25950/bc77cbe9

[3] Foiles SM, Baskes MI, Daw MS, Plimpton SJ. EAM Model Driver for tabulated potentials with cubic Hermite spline interpolation as used in LAMMPS v006. OpenKIM; 2025. doi:10.25950/233cb735

[4] Tadmor EB, Elliott RS, Sethna JP, Miller RE, Becker CA. The potential of atomistic simulations and the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models. JOM. 2011;63(7):17. doi:10.1007/s11837-011-0102-6

[5] Elliott RS, Tadmor EB. Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM) Application Programming Interface (API). OpenKIM; 2011. doi:10.25950/ff8f563a

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MO_942420706858_006
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EAM_Dynamo_MendelevHanSrolovitz_2003Potential5_Fe__MO_942420706858_006
DOI 10.25950/bc77cbe9
https://doi.org/10.25950/bc77cbe9
https://commons.datacite.org/doi.org/10.25950/bc77cbe9
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KIM API Version2.0
Potential Type eam
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BCC Lattice Constant

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic body-centered cubic (bcc) lattice constant predicted by the current model (shown in the unique color) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


Cohesive Energy Graph

This graph shows the cohesive energy versus volume-per-atom for the current mode for four mono-atomic cubic phases (body-centered cubic (bcc), face-centered cubic (fcc), simple cubic (sc), and diamond). The curve with the lowest minimum is the ground state of the crystal if stable. (The crystal structure is enforced in these calculations, so the phase may not be stable.) Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


Diamond Lattice Constant

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic face-centered diamond lattice constant predicted by the current model (shown in the unique color) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


Dislocation Core Energies

This graph shows the dislocation core energy of a cubic crystal at zero temperature and pressure for a specific set of dislocation core cutoff radii. After obtaining the total energy of the system from conjugate gradient minimizations, non-singular, isotropic and anisotropic elasticity are applied to obtain the dislocation core energy for each of these supercells with different dipole distances. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

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FCC Elastic Constants

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic face-centered cubic (fcc) elastic constants predicted by the current model (shown in blue) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


FCC Lattice Constant

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice constant predicted by the current model (shown in red) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


FCC Stacking Fault Energies

This bar chart plot shows the intrinsic and extrinsic stacking fault energies as well as the unstable stacking and unstable twinning energies for face-centered cubic (fcc) predicted by the current model (shown in blue) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

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FCC Surface Energies

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic face-centered cubic (fcc) relaxed surface energies predicted by the current model (shown in blue) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

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SC Lattice Constant

This bar chart plot shows the mono-atomic simple cubic (sc) lattice constant predicted by the current model (shown in the unique color) compared with the predictions for all other models in the OpenKIM Repository that support the species. The vertical bars show the average and standard deviation (one sigma) bounds for all model predictions. Graphs are generated for each species supported by the model.

Species: Fe


Cubic Crystal Basic Properties Table

Species: Fe



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