Using quantum-mechanical methods we calculate and analyze (tensorial) anisotropic elastic properties of the ground-state configurations of interface states associated with Σ 5(210) grain boundaries (GBs) in cubic L1 2 -structure Ni 3 Si. We assess the mechanical stability of interface states with two different chemical compositions at the studied GB by checking rigorous elasticity-based Born stability criteria. In particular, we show that a GB variant containing both Ni and Si atoms at the interface is unstable with respect to shear deformation (one of the elastic constants, C 55 , is negative). This instability is found for a rectangular-parallelepiped supercell obtained when applying standard coincidence-lattice construction. Our elastic-constant analysis allowed us to identify a shear-deformation mode reducing the energy and, eventually, to obtain mechanically stable ground-state characterized by a shear-deformed parallelepiped supercell. Alternatively, we tested a stabilization of this GB interface state by Al substituents replacing Si atoms at the GB. We further discuss an atomistic origin of this instability in terms of the crystal orbital Hamilton population (COHP) and phonon dispersion calculations. We find that the unstable GB variant shows a very strong interaction between the Si atoms in the GB plane and Ni atoms in the 3rd plane off the GB interface. However, such bond reinforcement results in weakening of interaction between the Ni atoms in the 3rd plane and the Si atoms in the 5th plane making this GB variant mechanically unstable.

Central European Institute of Technology CEITEC MU Masaryk University Kamenice 5 CZ 625 00 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kotlářská 2 CZ 611 37 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Physical Metallurgy and Materials Testing Montanuniversität Leoben Franz Josef Strasse 18 A 8700 Leoben Austria

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Prague Ke Karlovu 5 CZ 121 16 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Materials Science and Engineering NETME Centre Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology Technická 2896 2 CZ 616 69 Brno Czech Republic

Institute of Physics of Materials Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Žižkova 22 CZ 616 62 Brno Czech Republic

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