Local compressibilities in crystals
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 62 (21), 13970-13978
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.62.13970
Abstract
An application of the atoms in molecules theory to the partitioning of static thermodynamic properties in condensed systems is presented. Attention is focused on the definition and the behavior of atomic compressibilities. Inverses of bulk moduli are found to be simple weighted averages of atomic compressibilities. Two kinds of systems are investigated as examples: four related oxide spinels and the alkali halide family. Our analyses show that the puzzling constancy of the bulk moduli of these spinels is a consequence of the value of the compressibility of an oxide ion. A functional dependence between ionic bulk moduli and ionic volume is also proposed.Keywords
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