ArXiv · 2026
Complex metallic alloys exhibit rich disorder-driven electronic, magnetic, and vibrational behavior arising from strong chemical disorder, leading to unconventional structure-property relationships with applications in extreme-environment materials, catalysis, spintronics, and thermoelectrics. Despite their technological relevance, the microscopic nature of charge redistribution and electrostatic fluctuations in chemically disordered alloys remains incompletely understood. Here, we develop a theoretical framework that uncovers universal statistical trends of disorder-driven charge transfer and Madelung-field fluctuations. Our analytical formalism demonstrates that local charge transfer and electrostatic potentials exhibit Gaussian-like statistics and universal linear charge-potential (qV) correlations emerging directly from the underlying disorder landscape. We identify the physical origin of these correlations in the interplay between electronic screening and impurity scattering and show how their statistical properties depend on carrier density, disorder strength, and compositional complexity. We further derive scaling relations governing qV trends across binary and multicomponent alloys, including high-entropy materials. Large-supercell density-functional theory (DFT) calculations show good quantitative agreement with the predicted statistical behavior for representative metallic alloys. Our results provide a computationally efficient framework for incorporating disorder-driven electrostatic fluctuations into effective-medium electronic-structure theories and establish a statistical-physics foundation for the predictive design of complex alloys.
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