Local lattice distortion in high-entropy alloys

Hongquan Song,1 Fuyang Tian,1,* Qing-Miao Hu,2,† Levente Vitos,3,4,5 Yandong Wang,6 Jiang Shen,1 and Nanxian Chen1,7 1Institute for Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China 2Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang 110016, China 3Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-100 44, Sweden 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Division of Materials Theory, Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden 5Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary 6State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China 7Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China (Received 15 January 2017; revised manuscript received 8 June 2017; published 19 July 2017)