Ab-initio melting curve and principal Hugoniot of tantalum
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We report first principles calculations of the melting curve and principal Hugoniot (P − V curve) of body centered cubic (bcc) tantalum in the pressure range 0-300 GPa. A description of lattice dynamics and thermal properties of bcc Ta using finite temperature density functional theory (DFT) is presented. The approach works within the projector augmented wave (PAW) implementation of DFT and explicitly treats in valence the 5p, 6s and 5d electrons. The principal Hugoniot (P − V curve), obtained using the Rankine-Hugoniot equation, is investigated using the generalized gradient approximations (GGA). Very good agreement with the shock experiments is obtained with GGA in all the range of pressure. We also report the temperature-pressure relation on the shock Hugoniot and the full ab-initio melting curve of Ta.
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