An inelastic nuclear resonant scattering study of partial entropies of ordered and disordered Fe{sub 3}Al

Inelastic nuclear resonant scattering spectra were measured on alloys of Fe{sub 3}Al that were chemically disordered, partially-ordered, and DO{sub 3}-ordered. The phonon partial DOS for {sup 57}Fe atoms were extracted from these data, and the change upon disordering in the partial vibrational entropy of Fe atoms was obtained. By comparison to previous calorimetry measurements, it is shown that the contribution of the Fe atoms to the vibrational entropy is a factor of 10 smaller than that of the Al atoms. With the assistance of Born - von Karman model calculations on the ordered alloy, it is shown that differences in the vibrational entropy originate primarily with changes in the optical modes upon disordering. The phonon DOS of {sup 57}Fe was found to change systematically with chemical short range order in the alloy. It is argued that changes in the vibrational entropy originate primarily with changes in the chemical short-range order in the alloy, as opposed to long-range order