THEORETICAL MELTING CURVES OF ALKALI-HALIDES

An analysis of the melting curves of alkali halides is given. The study is based on the Improved Unsymmetrized Self-Consistent Field Method (IUSCFM) for strongly anharmonic crystals with complex lattice and the energy, entropy and Ross's criterions in calculating the melting curves of alkali halides. Thc anharmonicities up to sixth order have been taken into consideration. The energy criterion was proven to be the most correct one along the melting curves of the high pressure modification (CsCl structure) while the entropy and Ross's criterions lead to a little better agreement with experiment than the energy criterion when dealing with rocksalt structure. Calculations of the melting curves of KCl and CsCl are compared with the experimental results.