- 
				Periclase is the terminal component of the ferropericlase, and its chemical composition is MgO. It is well known that there exists a huge difference between the melting curves of MgO determined experimentally and theoretically. A feasible way to clarify the nature of the melting temperature is to investigate the possible new phase of MgO. Meanwhile, it is very important to study the new phase and the influence of temperature on structural stability of MgO in high-pressure condensed matter physics and geophysics. In the present work, we study in detail the phase stability and the possible existing structures of MgO, which include the structure predicted by particle swarm optimization algorithm through using the first-principles pseudopotential density functional method. We find that MgO crystallizes into a rocksalt structure in a pressure range from 0 to 580 GPa and that the CsCl-type structure is of a high-pressure phase at up to 800 GPa. Although an NiAs-type hexagonal phase perhaps explains the volume discontinuity at (170 ± 10) GPa along the MgO Hugoniot in a shock-compression experiment (Zhang L, Fei Y W 2008 Geophys. Res. Lett. 35 L13302) and a wurtzite phase perhaps explains the huge difference between the melting curves of MgO determined experimentally and theoretically (Aguado A, Madden P A 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 068501), neither of them is existent in the entire range of pressures studied, according to the thermodynamic stability calculations. The calculations of phonon spectra indicate that the B3, B4, B81, B82, and P3m1 phases of MgO are dynamically stable at zero pressure. That is to say, all of the predicted structures are the metastable structures of MgO. In addition, the high-temperature structural stability of MgO is investigated by using very similar Lewis-Catlow and Stoneham-Sangster shell model potential based on the classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In order to take into account the non-central force in crystal, the breathing shell model is also introduced in simulation. The thermodynamic melting curves are estimated on the basis of the thermal instability MD simulations and compared with the available experimental data and other theoretical results in the pressure range of 0-150 GPa.- 
										Keywords:
										
- periclase /
- structural phase transition /
- melting /
- high pressure /
- high temperature
 [1] Wood B J, Nell J 1991 Nature 351 309  Google Scholar Google Scholar[2] Fei Y W 1999 Am. Meniral. 84 272 [3] Zhang L, Fei Y W 2008 Geophys. Res. Lett. 35 L13302  Google Scholar Google Scholar[4] Francis M F, Taylor C D 2013 Phys. Rev. B 87 075450  Google Scholar Google Scholar[5] Hong N V, Lan M T, Hung P K 2012 High Pressure Res. 32 509  Google Scholar Google Scholar[6] Aguado A, Madden P A 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 068501  Google Scholar Google Scholar[7] Yan Q, Rinke P, Winkelnkemper M, Qteish A, Bimberg D, Scheffler M, van de Walle C G 2012 Appl. Phys. Lett. 101 152105  Google Scholar Google Scholar[8] Joshi K, Sharma B, Paliwal U, Barbiellini B 2012 J. Mater. Sci. 47 7549  Google Scholar Google Scholar[9] Duffy T S, Hemley R J, Mao H K 1995 Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 1371  Google Scholar Google Scholar[10] Song T, Sun X W, Liu Z J, Kong B, Quan W L, Fu Z J, Li J F, Tian J H 2012 Phys. Scr. 85 045702  Google Scholar Google Scholar[11] Sims C E, Barrera G D, Allan N L, Mackrodt W C 1998 Phys. Rev. B 57 11164  Google Scholar Google Scholar[12] Oganov A R, Gillan M J, Price G D 2003 J. Chem. Phys. 118 10174  Google Scholar Google Scholar[13] Zerr A, Boehler R 1994 Nature 371 506  Google Scholar Google Scholar[14] Anderson O L, Duba A 1997 J. Geophys. Res. 102 22659  Google Scholar Google Scholar[15] Sun X W, Chen Q F, Chu Y D, Wang C W 2005 Physica B 370 186  Google Scholar Google Scholar[16] Dubrovinsky L, Dubrovinskaia N, Prakapenka V B, Abakumov A M 2012 Nature Communs. 3 1163  Google Scholar Google Scholar[17] Wang Y C, Lü J, Zhu L, Ma Y M 2010 Phys. Rev. B 82 094116  Google Scholar Google Scholar[18] Lü J, Wang Y C, Zhu L, Ma Y M 2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 015503  Google Scholar Google Scholar[19] Li Y, Hao J, Liu H, Li Y, Ma Y 2014 J. Chem. Phys. 140 174712  Google Scholar Google Scholar[20] Drozdov A P, Eremets M I, Troyan I A, Ksenofontov V, Shylin S I 2015 Nature 525 73  Google Scholar Google Scholar[21] Peng F, Sun Y, Pickard C J, Needs R J, Wu Q, Ma Y 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 107001  Google Scholar Google Scholar[22] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169  Google Scholar Google Scholar[23] Perdew J P, Burke K, Ernzerhof M 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 3865  Google Scholar Google Scholar[24] Blöchl P E 1994 Phys. Rev. B 50 17953  Google Scholar Google Scholar[25] Monkhorst H J, Pack J D 1976 Phys. Rev. B 13 5188  Google Scholar Google Scholar[26] Segall M D, Lindan P J D, Probert M J, Pickard C J, Hasnip P J, Clark S J, Payne M C 2002 Phys. Condens. Matter. 14 2717  Google Scholar Google Scholar[27] Perdew J P, Ruzsinszky A, Csonka G I, Vydrov O A, Scuseria G E, Constantin L A, Zhou X, Burke K 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 136406  Google Scholar Google Scholar[28] Vanderbilt D 1990 Phys. Rev. B 41 7892  Google Scholar Google Scholar[29] Fischer T H, Almlof J 1992 J. Phys. Chem. 96 9768  Google Scholar Google Scholar[30] Gonze X, Lee C 1997 Phys. Rev B. 55 10355  Google Scholar Google Scholar[31] Fincham D 1992 Mol. Sim. 8 165  Google Scholar Google Scholar[32] Dick B G, Overhauser A W 1958 Phys. Rev. 112 90  Google Scholar Google Scholar[33] Lewis G V, Catlow C R A 1985 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 18 1149  Google Scholar Google Scholar[34] Stoneham A M, Sangster M J L 1985 Phil. Mag. B 52 717  Google Scholar Google Scholar[35] Catlow C R A, Faux I D, Norgett M J 1976 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 9 419 [36] Henkelman G, Uberuaga B P, Harris D J, Harding J H, Allan N L 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 115437  Google Scholar Google Scholar[37] Mao H K, Bell P M 1979 J. Geophys. Res. 84 4533  Google Scholar Google Scholar[38] Song T, Sun X W, Wang R F, Lu H W, Tian J H 2011 Physica B 406 293  Google Scholar Google Scholar[39] Sun X W, Song T, Chu Y D, Liu Z J, Zhang Z R, Chen Q F 2010 Solid State Commun. 150 1785  Google Scholar Google Scholar[40] Jeanloz R, Ahrens T J, Mao H K, Bell P M 1979 Science 206 829  Google Scholar Google Scholar[41] Phillips J C 1971 Phys. Rev. Lett. 27 1197  Google Scholar Google Scholar[42] van Camp P E, van Doren V E 1996 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8 3385  Google Scholar Google Scholar[43] Cai Y X, Wu S T, Xu R, Yu J 2006 Phys. Rev. B 73 184104  Google Scholar Google Scholar[44] Luo F, Cheng Y, Cai L C, Chen X R 2013 J. Appl. Phys. 113 033517  Google Scholar Google Scholar[45] Speziale S, Zha C S, Duffy T S, Hemley R J, Mao H K 2001 J. Geophys. Res. 106 515  Google Scholar Google Scholar[46] Lu K, Li Y 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 4474  Google Scholar Google Scholar[47] Riley B 1966 Rev. Int. Hautes Temp. Refract. 3 327 [48] Tallon J L 1989 Nature 342 658  Google Scholar Google Scholar[49] Belonoshko A B, Dubrovinsky L S 1996 Am. Mineral. 81 303  Google Scholar Google Scholar[50] Wang Z, Tutti F, Saxena S K 2001 High Temp.-High Press. 33 357  Google Scholar Google Scholar[51] Lindemann F A 1910 Z. Phys. 11 609 [52] Luo S N, Strachan A, Swift D C 2004 J. Chem. Phys. 120 11640  Google Scholar Google Scholar
- 
				
    
    
表 1 岩盐结构的MgO晶体特性模拟的短程对势参数 Table 1. Parameters of the short-range pair potentials for simulation of MgO crystal properties with NaCl-type structure. Parameter SM-SS SM-LC BSM BG Mg-O Aij/eV 1346.6 821.6 1822.0 929.69 ρij/Å 0.2984 0.3243 0.32448 0.29909 Cij/eV·Å6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 O-O Aij/eV 22764.4 22764.4 17.22556 4870.0 ρij/Å 0.149 0.149 0.65664 0.267 Cij/eV·Å6 20.37 20.37 1.1×10–7 77.0 表 2 岩盐结构的MgO晶体特性模拟的壳层及呼吸壳层参数 Table 2. Shell and breathing shell parameters of MgO crystal characteristic simulation with NaCl-type structure. Parameter SM-SS SM-LC BSM Y/ |e| –2.9345 2.0000 –3.42274 k/ eV·Å–2 51.71 15.74 113.58 K/ eV·Å–2 298.304 
- 
				
[1] Wood B J, Nell J 1991 Nature 351 309  Google Scholar Google Scholar[2] Fei Y W 1999 Am. Meniral. 84 272 [3] Zhang L, Fei Y W 2008 Geophys. Res. Lett. 35 L13302  Google Scholar Google Scholar[4] Francis M F, Taylor C D 2013 Phys. Rev. B 87 075450  Google Scholar Google Scholar[5] Hong N V, Lan M T, Hung P K 2012 High Pressure Res. 32 509  Google Scholar Google Scholar[6] Aguado A, Madden P A 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 068501  Google Scholar Google Scholar[7] Yan Q, Rinke P, Winkelnkemper M, Qteish A, Bimberg D, Scheffler M, van de Walle C G 2012 Appl. Phys. Lett. 101 152105  Google Scholar Google Scholar[8] Joshi K, Sharma B, Paliwal U, Barbiellini B 2012 J. Mater. Sci. 47 7549  Google Scholar Google Scholar[9] Duffy T S, Hemley R J, Mao H K 1995 Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 1371  Google Scholar Google Scholar[10] Song T, Sun X W, Liu Z J, Kong B, Quan W L, Fu Z J, Li J F, Tian J H 2012 Phys. Scr. 85 045702  Google Scholar Google Scholar[11] Sims C E, Barrera G D, Allan N L, Mackrodt W C 1998 Phys. Rev. B 57 11164  Google Scholar Google Scholar[12] Oganov A R, Gillan M J, Price G D 2003 J. Chem. Phys. 118 10174  Google Scholar Google Scholar[13] Zerr A, Boehler R 1994 Nature 371 506  Google Scholar Google Scholar[14] Anderson O L, Duba A 1997 J. Geophys. Res. 102 22659  Google Scholar Google Scholar[15] Sun X W, Chen Q F, Chu Y D, Wang C W 2005 Physica B 370 186  Google Scholar Google Scholar[16] Dubrovinsky L, Dubrovinskaia N, Prakapenka V B, Abakumov A M 2012 Nature Communs. 3 1163  Google Scholar Google Scholar[17] Wang Y C, Lü J, Zhu L, Ma Y M 2010 Phys. Rev. B 82 094116  Google Scholar Google Scholar[18] Lü J, Wang Y C, Zhu L, Ma Y M 2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 015503  Google Scholar Google Scholar[19] Li Y, Hao J, Liu H, Li Y, Ma Y 2014 J. Chem. Phys. 140 174712  Google Scholar Google Scholar[20] Drozdov A P, Eremets M I, Troyan I A, Ksenofontov V, Shylin S I 2015 Nature 525 73  Google Scholar Google Scholar[21] Peng F, Sun Y, Pickard C J, Needs R J, Wu Q, Ma Y 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 107001  Google Scholar Google Scholar[22] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169  Google Scholar Google Scholar[23] Perdew J P, Burke K, Ernzerhof M 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 3865  Google Scholar Google Scholar[24] Blöchl P E 1994 Phys. Rev. B 50 17953  Google Scholar Google Scholar[25] Monkhorst H J, Pack J D 1976 Phys. Rev. B 13 5188  Google Scholar Google Scholar[26] Segall M D, Lindan P J D, Probert M J, Pickard C J, Hasnip P J, Clark S J, Payne M C 2002 Phys. Condens. Matter. 14 2717  Google Scholar Google Scholar[27] Perdew J P, Ruzsinszky A, Csonka G I, Vydrov O A, Scuseria G E, Constantin L A, Zhou X, Burke K 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 136406  Google Scholar Google Scholar[28] Vanderbilt D 1990 Phys. Rev. B 41 7892  Google Scholar Google Scholar[29] Fischer T H, Almlof J 1992 J. Phys. Chem. 96 9768  Google Scholar Google Scholar[30] Gonze X, Lee C 1997 Phys. Rev B. 55 10355  Google Scholar Google Scholar[31] Fincham D 1992 Mol. Sim. 8 165  Google Scholar Google Scholar[32] Dick B G, Overhauser A W 1958 Phys. Rev. 112 90  Google Scholar Google Scholar[33] Lewis G V, Catlow C R A 1985 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 18 1149  Google Scholar Google Scholar[34] Stoneham A M, Sangster M J L 1985 Phil. Mag. B 52 717  Google Scholar Google Scholar[35] Catlow C R A, Faux I D, Norgett M J 1976 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 9 419 [36] Henkelman G, Uberuaga B P, Harris D J, Harding J H, Allan N L 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 115437  Google Scholar Google Scholar[37] Mao H K, Bell P M 1979 J. Geophys. Res. 84 4533  Google Scholar Google Scholar[38] Song T, Sun X W, Wang R F, Lu H W, Tian J H 2011 Physica B 406 293  Google Scholar Google Scholar[39] Sun X W, Song T, Chu Y D, Liu Z J, Zhang Z R, Chen Q F 2010 Solid State Commun. 150 1785  Google Scholar Google Scholar[40] Jeanloz R, Ahrens T J, Mao H K, Bell P M 1979 Science 206 829  Google Scholar Google Scholar[41] Phillips J C 1971 Phys. Rev. Lett. 27 1197  Google Scholar Google Scholar[42] van Camp P E, van Doren V E 1996 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 8 3385  Google Scholar Google Scholar[43] Cai Y X, Wu S T, Xu R, Yu J 2006 Phys. Rev. B 73 184104  Google Scholar Google Scholar[44] Luo F, Cheng Y, Cai L C, Chen X R 2013 J. Appl. Phys. 113 033517  Google Scholar Google Scholar[45] Speziale S, Zha C S, Duffy T S, Hemley R J, Mao H K 2001 J. Geophys. Res. 106 515  Google Scholar Google Scholar[46] Lu K, Li Y 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 4474  Google Scholar Google Scholar[47] Riley B 1966 Rev. Int. Hautes Temp. Refract. 3 327 [48] Tallon J L 1989 Nature 342 658  Google Scholar Google Scholar[49] Belonoshko A B, Dubrovinsky L S 1996 Am. Mineral. 81 303  Google Scholar Google Scholar[50] Wang Z, Tutti F, Saxena S K 2001 High Temp.-High Press. 33 357  Google Scholar Google Scholar[51] Lindemann F A 1910 Z. Phys. 11 609 [52] Luo S N, Strachan A, Swift D C 2004 J. Chem. Phys. 120 11640  Google Scholar Google Scholar
Catalog
Metrics
- Abstract views: 22237
- PDF Downloads: 168
- Cited By: 0


 
					 
		         
	         
  
					 
												






 
							 DownLoad:
DownLoad: 
				 
							 
							 
							 
							 
							 
							