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Stability of the body-centred-cubic phase of iron in the Earth's inner core
KTH, Superseded Departments (pre-2005), Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7531-3210
KTH, Superseded Departments (pre-2005), Materials Science and Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1231-9994
KTH, Superseded Departments (pre-2005), Materials Science and Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5429-5578
2003 (English)In: Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, E-ISSN 1476-4687, Vol. 424, no 6952, p. 1032-1034Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Iron is thought to be the main constituent of the Earth's core(1), and considerable efforts(2-14) have therefore been made to understand its properties at high pressure and temperature. While these efforts have expanded our knowledge of the iron phase diagram, there remain some significant inconsistencies, the most notable being the difference between the 'low' and 'high' melting curves(15). Here we report the results of molecular dynamics simulations of iron based on embedded atom models fitted to the results of two implementations of density functional theory. We tested two model approximations and found that both point to the stability of the body-centred-cubic (b.c.c.) iron phase at high temperature and pressure. Our calculated melting curve is in agreement with the 'high' melting curve, but our calculated phase boundary between the hexagonal close packed (h. c. p.) and b.c.c. iron phases is in good agreement with the 'low' melting curve. We suggest that the h.c.p.-b.c.c. transition was previously misinterpreted as a melting transition, similar to the case of xenon(16-18), and that the b.c.c. phase of iron is the stable phase in the Earth's inner core.

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2003. Vol. 424, no 6952, p. 1032-1034
Keywords [en]
situ x-ray, high-pressure, in-situ, melting curve, temperatures, elasticity, diagram
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-22769DOI: 10.1038/nature01954ISI: 000184984200037PubMedID: 12944963Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-0042364945OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-22769DiVA, id: diva2:341467
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QC 20100525Available from: 2010-08-10 Created: 2010-08-10 Last updated: 2022-09-07Bibliographically approved

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