Phase Relations in CaSiO3 System up to 100 GPa and 2500 K
Dinara N. Sagatova, Anton Shatskiy, Nursultan E. Sagatov, Konstantin D. Litasov
Abstract
Phase relations in one of the key petrological systems, CaSiO3, have been comprehensively investigated for the first time in the pressure range 0–100 GPa and temperatures 0–2500 K within the density functional theory using the method of lattice dynamics in the quasi-harmonic approximation. The results showed that at atmospheric pressure and 0 K CaSiO3 is stable in the wollastonite structure, which above 1250 K transforms to the high-temperature pseudowollastonite modification. Above a pressure of 4 GPa, CaSiO3 is stable in the breyite structure. The phase equilibrium curve has a negative slope of dP/dT = –0.6 MPa/K. At 8 GPa, CaSiO3 decomposes into an assemblage of Ca2SiO4-larnite and titanite-structured CaSi2O5. The phase equilibrium curve has a positive slope of dP/dT = 1.35 MPa/K. At a pressure of 13 GPa, Ca2SiO4-larnite reacts with CaSi2O5, forming a phase with a perovskite-like structure – CaSiO3-perovskite. The pressure of this phase transition is practically independent of temperature. In the low-temperature region, Ca-perovskite is stable in the tetragonal modification CaSiO3-I4/mcm. Above 340 K at 13 GPa, Ca-perovskite is stable in the cubic modification CaSiO3- $$Pm\bar {3}m.$$ The phase transition temperature increases to 755 K with pressure increase to 100 GPa. The thermodynamic parameters were also calculated for the first time for wollastonite, pseudowollastonite, and titanite-structured CaSi2O5.