On anomalies of anharmonic effects for soft phonons in alkali and bcc alkali-earth metals

V. G. Vaks, G. D. Samolyuk, A. V. Trefilov

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Abstract

Calculations of the anharmonic effects in alkali metals have shown that for the short-wave phonons of the soft Σ4-branch the frequencies ωi increase and the Grüneisen parameters γi sharply decrease with increasing temperature. Recent experiments for Na and Li appear to confirm these predictions. Our calculations show that in the bcc alkali-earth metals both anomalies are still more pronounced increasing in scale in the Ba-Ca-Sr series.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-42
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume127
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 1988
Externally publishedYes

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