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Which risk elevates significantly when modelling alloy behaviour computationally using Density Functional Theory near phase transition temperatures?

A)Inaccurate atomic interaction energies
B)Exceeding computational resource limits
C)Underestimation of magnetic ordering
D)Artificial symmetry breaking occurs

💡 Explanation

Incomplete consideration of electron correlation causes erroneous interaction energies because the **exchange-correlation functional approximation** lacks sufficient accuracy to describe bond forming and breaking. Therefore, alloy energies and phase stability becomes unreliable, rather than the limit, ordering, or symmetries.

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