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The first two volumes in this series published twenty years ago contained chapters devoted to anharmonic properties of solids, <IT>ab initio</IT> calculations of phonons in metals and insulators, and surface phonons. In the intervening years each of these important areas of lattice dynam...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 1995. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Dynamical properties of solids ;
volume 7 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/18745628/7 |
| Summary: |
The first two volumes in this series published twenty years ago contained chapters devoted to anharmonic properties of solids, <IT>ab initio</IT> 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, <IT>ab initio</IT> 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 531 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780444822628 0444822623 9780080538785 0080538789 |
| Index Number: | QC176 |
| CLC: | O482.1 |
| Contents: | Front Cover; Dynamical Properties of Solids: Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge; Copyright Page; Preface; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1. Path-integral quantum Monte Carlo studies of the vibrational properties of crystals; Chapter 2. Lattice dynamical applications of variational effective potentials in the Feynman path-integral formulation of statistical mechanics; Chapter 3. Unusual anharmonic local mode systems; Chapter 4. Influence of isotopic and substitutional atoms on the propagation of phonons in anisotropic media; Chapter 5. Phonons in semiconductor alloys. |