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3.65 Å phase

MgSi(OH)6

fourth-order Birch-Murnaghan · Original · 2015

V₀
202.02
ų
Unit cell
K₀
80
GPa
Unknown
K′
3.400
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
202.02 ų Unit cell

Reported value and unit are preserved as extracted. Z (formula units per cell) is not stored yet, so molar ↔ ų/f.u. conversion is not applied automatically.

Composition

OxideMolar
MgO1
SiO21
H2O3

Formula: MgSi(OH)6

Conditions & method

Tref
Pref
Structure
perovskite (unspecified)
Method
first-principles DFT / ab initio
first-principles DFT (GGA, PAW, VASP), static calculations
Sample
model crystal structure based on Wunder et al. (2011, 2012), Welch and Wunder (2012)

Source

Paper
Equation of state and elasticity of the 3.65 Å phase: Implications for the X-di…
Authors
Mainak Mookherjee; S. Speziale; Hauke Marquardt; Sandro Jahn; Bernd Wunder; Monika Koch‐Müller; Hanns‐Peter Liermann
DOI
10.2138/am-2015-5312
Year
2015
Journal
American Mineralogist
Origin
Original (measured or fitted in the source paper)

Evidence from the paper

Table 2 (First-principles simulation, this study): fourth | 202.02 | 80 | 3.4; The bulk modulus predicted with static calculations K0PAWGGA is equal to 80 GPa, in very good agreement with the experimental value; V0PAWGGA > V0exp by 3.8%

Additional notes

calculation details
GGA (PAW), VASP, Ecut = 1000 eV, 2×2×2 Monkhorst-Pack k-point mesh, static (athermal) conditions