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American Physical Society, Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), 1(55), p. 212-225, 1997

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.55.212

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Monte Carlo study of the growth ofL12-ordered domains in fccA3B binary alloys

Journal article published in 1997 by Carlos Frontera, Eduard Vives ORCID, Teresa Castán, Antoni Planes
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Abstract

A Monte Carlo study of the late time growth of L12-ordered domains in a fcc A3B binary alloy is presented. The energy of the alloy has been modeled by a nearest-neighbor interaction Ising Hamiltonian. The system exhibits a fourfold degenerated ground state and two kinds of interfaces separating ordered domains: flat and curved antiphase boundaries. Two different dynamics are used in the simulations: the standard atom-atom exchange mechanism and the more realistic vacancy-atom exchange mechanism. The results obtained by both methods are compared. In particular we study the time evolution of the excess energy, the structure factor and the mean distance between walls. In the case of atom-atom exchange mechanism anisotropic growth has been found: two characteristic lengths are needed in order to describe the evolution. Contrarily, with the vacancy-atom exchange mechanism scaling with a single length holds. Results are contrasted with existing experiments in Cu3Au and theories for anisotropic growth.