title: First-principles molecular dynamics calculations of the equation of state for tantalum.
abstract: The equation of state of tantalum (Ta) has been investigated to 100 GPa and 3,000 K using the first-principles molecular dynamics method. A large volume dependence of the thermal pressure of Ta was revealed from the analysis of our data. A significant temperature dependence of the calculated effective Grüneisen parameters was confirmed at high pressures. This indicates that the conventional approach to analyze thermal properties using the Mie-Grüneisen approximation is likely to have a significant uncertainty in determining the equation of state for Ta, and that an intrinsic anharmonicity should be considered to analyze the equation of state.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan.|Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan.
authors.forename: Shigeaki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ono
mesh_terms: D006358:Hot Temperature; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D011312:Pressure; D013635:Tantalum / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D013635:Tantalum