Nonlinear variation of structural, thermodynamic and elastic properties of Mg2SiO4-ringwoodite caused by cation disorder
摘要
Understanding the impacts of cation disorder (characterized by the inversion parameter x, the Mg fraction on the tetrahedral site) on the structural, and physical–chemical properties of Mg2SiO4-ringwoodite (Rw) is very important. In this study, first-principles method combined with quasi-harmonic approximation theory has been used to obtain the microstructures, thermodynamic properties, and elastic properties of Rw at six different cation disorder states, from normal spinel configuration (x = 0) to inverse spinel configuration (x = 1). By the cation configurations with the lowest enthalpies for the investigated x values, we have established quantitative relations between x and physical–chemical properties like zero-pressure volume (V0), isothermal bulk modulus (KT), the first pressure derivative of KT (