Phonon Physics The Cutting Edge

G.K. Horton and A.A. Maradudin (Eds.)9780444822628, 0444822623

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 :
Content:
Preface
Pages v-vi
G.K. Horton, A.A. Maradudin

List of Contributors
Pages vii-viii

Chapter 1 Path-integral quantum Monte Carlo studies of the vibrational properties of crystals Original Research Article
Pages 1-77
Arthur R. McGurn

Chapter 2 Lattice dynamical applications of variational effective potentials in the feynman path-integral formulation of statistical mechanics Original Research Article
Pages 79-136
E. Roger Cowley, George K. Horton

Chapter 3 Unusual anharmonic local mode systems Original Research Article
Pages 137-255
A.J. Severs, J.B. Page

Chapter 4 Influence of isotopic and substitutional atoms on the propagation of phonons in anisotropic media Original Research Article
Pages 257-348
Tadeusz Paszkiewicz, Marek Wilczyński

Chapter 5 Phonons in semiconductor alloys Original Research Article
Pages 349-424
John D. Dow, William E. Packard, Howard A. Blackstead, David W. Jenkins

Chapter 6 Electronic screening in metals: from phonons to plasmons Original Research Article
Pages 425-507
Adolfo G. Eguiluz, Andrew A. Quong

Author Index
Pages 509-522

Subject Index
Pages 523-531