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Structures and potential energy functions for ground states of PuU and U2 molecules

NUCLEAR, HEAVY ION AND ATOMIC PHYSICS

Structures and potential energy functions for ground states of PuU and U2 molecules

LI Rusong
HE Bin
ZHANG Quanhu
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.22, No.1pp.47-54Published in print 20 Feb 2011
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Pu-Pu, Pu-U and U-U interatomic potentials must be known in molecular dynamics (MD) calculation of the effects of U recoil nucleus produced by self irradiation on physical properties and phase stability in δ-Pu. Because of the lack of experimental data for fitting Pu-U and U-U potentials, electronic states and potential data of PuU and U2 molecules are obtained by ab initio calculations with B3LYP hybrid exchange-correlation functional. The valence electrons of Pu and U atoms are treated with contraction basis sets, and the cores are approximated with relativistic effective core potential. The results show that electronic states for the ground states are X11Σu+ and X9Σg+. The pair potential data are fitted with the Murrell-Sorbie analytical potential function. The LDA+U calculations on the Pu-U intermetallic compound are performed with Perdew and Wang exchange-correlation functional at the spin-polarized level. The material parameters, such as the cohesive energies, elastic constants, and bulk modulus, are used to fit the 0-K universal Rose EOS, so the Pu-U EAM potential model is obtained.

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