Abstract
The fully two-dimensional Peierls barrier map of screw dislocations in body-centered cubic (bcc) iron has been calculated using the first-principles method to identify the migration path of a dislocation core. An efficient method to correct the effect of the finite size cell used in the first-principles method on the energy of a lattice defect was devised to determine the accurate barrier profile. We find that the migration path is close to a straight line that is confined in a {110} plane and the Peierls barrier profile is single humped. This result clarifies why the existing empirical potentials of bcc iron fail to predict the correct mobility path. A line tension model incorporating these first-principles calculation results is used to predict the kink activation energy to be 0.73eV in agreement with experiment.
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