Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge
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Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge

  1. 530 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge

About this book

The first two volumes in this series published twenty years ago contained chapters devoted to anharmonic properties of solids, ab initio calculations of phonons in metals and insulators, and surface phonons. In the intervening years each of these important areas of lattice dynamics has undergone significant developments. This volume is therefore concerned with reviewing the current status of these areas.Chapter one deals with the path-integral quantum Monte-Carlo method as a numerical simulation approach and looks at how this has been applied successfully to the determination of low temperature thermodynamic properties of anharmonic crystals and to certain dynamical properties as well. Chapter two is concerned with the calculation of static and dynamic properties of anharmonic crystals in the quantum regime. Chapter three discusses intrinsic anharmonic localized modes that have been intensively studied recently. Two topics, ab initio calculations of phonons in metals, and surface phonons are dealt with in the next chapter. The remaining two chapters are devoted to topics that have not been treated in previous volumes. One is phonon transport and the second is phonons in disordered crystals.The work described in the six chapters of this volume testifies to the continuing vitality of the field of dynamical properties of solids nearly a century after its founding.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dynamical Properties of Solids: Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Contents
  7. Chapter 1. Path-integral quantum Monte Carlo studies of the vibrational properties of crystals
  8. Chapter 2. Lattice dynamical applications of variational effective potentials in the Feynman path-integral formulation of statistical mechanics
  9. Chapter 3. Unusual anharmonic local mode systems
  10. Chapter 4. Influence of isotopic and substitutional atoms on the propagation of phonons in anisotropic media
  11. Chapter 5. Phonons in semiconductor alloys
  12. Chapter 6. Electronic screening in metals: from phonons to plasmons
  13. Author index
  14. Subject index