Building Materials Genome from Ground-State Configuration to Engineering Advance
Zi-Kui Liu
Zi-Kui Liu
Sep 2023
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摘要原文
Individual phases are commonly considered as the building blocks of materials. However, the accurate theoretical prediction of properties of individual phases remains elusive. The top-down approach by decoding genomic building blocks of individual phases from experimental observations is non-unique. The density functional theory (DFT), as the state-of-the-art solution of quantum mechanics, prescribes the existence of a ground-state configuration at zero K for a given system. It is self-evident that the ground-state configuration alone is insufficient to describe a phase at finite temperatures as symmetry-breaking non-ground-state configurations are excited statistically at temperatures above zero K. Our multi-scale entropy approach (recently terms as Zentropy theory) postulates that the entropy of a phase is composed of the sum of the entropy of each configuration weighted by its probability plus the configurational entropy among all configurations. Consequently, the partition function of each configuration in statistical mechanics needs to be evaluated by its free energy rather than total energy. The combination of the ground- and non-ground-state configurations represents the building blocks of materials and can quantitively predict free energy of individual phases with the free energies of ground- and non-ground-state configurations predicted from DFT, plus all properties derived from free energy of individual phases.
