Comment on “Thermal vacancies in random alloys in the single-site mean-field approximation”

Dane Morgan and Yongfeng Zhang
Phys. Rev. B 101, 136101 – Published 23 April 2020

Abstract

This comment concerns the contribution of configurational mixing entropy to the change in the total Gibbs free energy in the process of vacancy formation and the consequent effect on the thermal equilibrium vacancy concentration in multicomponent alloys. A different derivation is shown than that in [Phys. Rev. B 93, 134115 (2016)], correcting an error that may come from using Gibbs free-energy per site. The derivation is further generalized to systems beyond binary alloys.

  • Received 26 January 2020
  • Accepted 31 March 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.136101

©2020 American Physical Society

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  1. Physical Systems
Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

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Dane Morgan1,* and Yongfeng Zhang2,†

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
  • 2Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

  • *ddmorgan@wisc.edu
  • yzhang2446@wisc.edu

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Vol. 101, Iss. 13 — 1 April 2020

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