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Quantum mechanical study of Al/Si disorder in leucite and bicchulite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

B. Winkler ,
V. Milman  and
C. J. Pickard
B. Winkler*
Affiliation:
Institut für Mineralogie, Abteilung für Kristallographie, Universität Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 30, D-60054 Frankfurt a. M., Germany
V. Milman
Affiliation:
Accelrys, 334 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 0WN, UK
C. J. Pickard
Affiliation:
TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
*
*E-mail: B.Winkler@kristall.uni-frankfurt.de
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Abstract

We have studied the structures of Al/Si disordered leucite and bicchulite with a quantum mechanical version of the virtual crystal approximation, VCA. In leucite, the average tetrahedron has a composition of (AlSi2)O4, while bicchulite represents an extreme case with (Al2Si)O4 tetrahedra. Both structures are well described with the VCA. In conjunction with an earlier study, where we have shown that the (AlSi)O4 tetrahedra in gehlenite and Al,Si-disordered octahedra are also well reproduced, we have now established that the VCA gives a reliable description of the averaged structure of disordered aluminosilicates over the whole compositional range. The current calculations confirm that Al/Si ordering is not driving the cubic to tetragonal phase transformation in leucite. In bicchulite, the model calculations are consistent with hydrogen on Wyckoff position 8c, in agreement with the result of a single crystal X-ray diffraction study, but in variance with results based on a neutron powder diffraction study.

Keywords

virtual crystal approximationDFTAl/Si disorder
Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 68 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 819 - 824
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2004

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