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← ScienceWhich 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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