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Post-perovskite

(Mg.5Fe.5)SiO3

third-order Birch-Murnaghan · Original · 2005

V₀
42.74
ų/f.u.
Formula unit
K₀
206
GPa
Isothermal
K′
4.230
dimensionless

Volume (V₀)

Value Unit Basis Z
42.74 ų/f.u. Formula unit

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
MgO0.5
FeO0.5
SiO21

Formula: (Mg.5Fe.5)SiO3

Conditions & method

Tref
Pref
Structure
post-perovskite (CaIrO3-type, Cmcm)
Method
first-principles DFT / ab initio
first-principles static spin-polarized calculation (DFT-LDA)
Sample

Source

Paper
Effect of chemistry on the stability and elasticity of the perovskite and post‐…
Authors
Razvan Caracas; R. E. Cohen
DOI
10.1029/2005gl023164
Year
2005
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
Origin
Original (measured or fitted in the source paper)

Evidence from the paper

Table 1, (Mg.5Fe.5)SiO3 ppv: V0 = 42.74 Å^3/3 O atoms, K0 = 206 GPa, K' = 4.23. For the Fe-bearing compositions we perform spin-polarized calculations.

Additional notes

exchange correlation
LDA
magnetic state
FM computations were performed for (Mg0.5Fe0.5)SiO3
note
Static (athermal) calculation; no GGA values reported for this composition