Electronic structure and thermodynamic properties of Cu3V2O8 compound

Abstract

The electronic structure and thermodynamic properties of Cu3V2O8 compound for three structures (P-1, P21/c and Cmca) are reported. The calculations are performed by using full-potential local orbital minimum basis method. The total electronic densities of states for all structures have the similar shape but the details are different. The thermodynamic properties (the bulk modulus B, Gibbs free energy, Debye temperature ΘD) are calculated in quasiharmonic Debye–Grüneisen model using the equation of states in the form of Murnaghan, Birch–Murnaghan, Poirier–Tarantola and Vinet. Our ab initio results indicate that α(P-1) phase is stable below 839 K, β(P21/c) and γ(Cmca) phases can exist in the region of 839 K < T < 875 K, however above T = 875 K only γ(Cmca) phase is observed.