INFLUENCE OF SHORT-RANGE 3-ION INTERACTIONS ON POLYMORPHISM AND ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF SIMPLE SOLIDS .2. COMPOUNDS WITH CLOSED D-SHELL CATIONS

The analysis given in the previous paper of polymorphism and low-temperature deviations from the Cauchy relation c13=c44 between the elastic constants of alkali halide solids is extended to ionic crystals of composition AX whose cations possess closed outer d shells of electrons, i.e., monovalent copper and silver, and divalent zinc and cadmium. The Born-Mayer model is again taken as a basis, supplemented by three-ion, exchange, non-Coulombic interactions in first and second orders of perturbation theory. It is found that attractive, exchange, cation-cation, and cation-anion pair interactions together with the three-ion forces explain polymorphism and the deviations from the Cauchy relations in cubic and hexagonal structures. © 1969 The American Physical Society.