Abstract:
The model of iron with Pak–Doyama pair interatomic potential was used as an example to demonstrate by molecular dynamic calculations that the structural stabilization of an amorphous phase of pure metals is due to the formation of a percolation cluster composed of the interpenetrating and mutually contacting icosahedra whose vertices and centers are occupied by atoms.
Citation:
A. V. Evteev, A. T. Kosilov, E. V. Levchenko, “Structural model for vitrification of pure metals”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 76:2 (2002), 115–117; JETP Letters, 76:2 (2002), 104–106