Scaling of Low-Temperature Heat Capacity in Cryocrystals
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2025-11-19 v1 Quantum Gases
Abstract
The low-temperature isochoric heat capacity of cryocrystals was scaled using the universal scaling function. This universality links the magnitude of the anomaly and the characteristic temperature of the hump in heat capacity, which is related to the first van Hove singularity in the phonon spectrum. For atomic, molecular, and quantum cryocrystals, systematically shifts with molar volume, reflecting Brillouin zone scaling and revealing a common vibrational origin. These findings for the scaling function bridge thermodynamics with the vibrational density of states, highlighting fundamental universality in lattice dynamics.
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@article{arxiv.2511.14409,
title = {Scaling of Low-Temperature Heat Capacity in Cryocrystals},
author = {M. Barabashko and A. Jeżowski and A. Krivchikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14409},
year = {2025}
}