Renormalized Phonon Microstructures at High Temperatures from First-Principles Calculations: Methodologies and Applications in Studying Strong Anharmonic Vibrations of Solids

While the vibrational thermodynamics of materials with small anharmonicity at low temperatures has been understood well based on the harmonic phonons approximation, at high temperatures, this understanding must accommodate how phonons interact with other phonons or with other excitations. To date th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tian Lan, Zhaoyan Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2714592