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57Fe site Mossbauer Spectroscopy (MS) was used to investigate a dynamics of 57Fe atoms embedded into chromium lattice as impurities. From the Mossbauer spectra recorded in the temperature range of 80 to 350 K, a temperature dependence of…
Lattice dynamics in a sigma-Fe60V40 compound, which shows a re-entrant magnetism and orders ferromagnetic ally at ca. 170K, was investigated with the Mossbauer spectroscopy in the temperature interval of 5-300 K. Two relevant spectral…
The low-temperature thermal properties of dielectric crystals are governed by acoustic excitations with large wavelengths that are well described by plane waves. This is the Debye model, which rests on the assumption that the medium is an…
A series of sigma-phase Fe_{100-x}V_x samples with 34.4 < x < 59.0 were investigated by neutron and X-ray diffraction and Mossbauer spectroscopy (MS) techniques. The first two methods were used for verification of the transformation from…
Anomalies in the temperature dependences of the recoil-free factor, f, and the average center shift, <CS>, measured by 57-Fe Mossbauer Spectroscopy, were observed for the first time in the archetype of the \sigma-phase alloys system, Fe-Cr.…
Debye temperature, TD, of Fe100-xCrx disordered alloys with 0<x<99.9 was determined from the temperature dependence of the centre shift of 57Fe Mossbauer spectra recorded in the temperature range of 80-300K. Its compositional dependence…
Debye temperature, $\Theta_D$, of Fe-rich Fe$_{100-x}$Cr$_x$ disordered alloys with $0\le x \le 22.3$ was determined from the temperature dependence of the central shift of M\"ossbauer spectra recorded in the temperature range of 60 -- 300…
Single-crystals of Cr and Cr3%Mn doped with ca. 0.2 at.% 119Sn were studied by means of 119Sn-site M\"ossbauer spectroscopy. M\"ossbauer spectra recorded in the temperature range of 78-300 K were analyzed using a hyperfine field…
Sigma-phase Fe65.9V34.1 alloy was investigated with the M\"ossbauer spectroscopy. M\"ossbauer spectra were recorded in the temperature interval of 80-300 K. Their analysis in terms of the hyperfine distribution protocol yielded the average…
This paper presents a first-principles study of the Debye-Waller factor and the Debye temperature for amorphous silicon ($a$-Si) from lattice-dynamical calculations and direct molecular-dynamics simulations using density-functional theory…
Binding of 57Fe atoms in a metallic chromium was investigated in a Cr-Fe alloy, containing less than 0.1 at% Fe enriched to ~95 % in 57Fe isotope, using 57Fe-site Mossbauer spectroscopy. The binding force was derived from the Debye…
The low-temperature properties of glasses present important differences with respect to crystalline matter. In particular, models such as the Debye model of solids, which assume the existence of an underlying regular lattice, predict that…
Two nearly universal and anomalous properties of glasses, the peak in the specific heat and plateau of the thermal conductivity, occur around the same temperature. This coincidence suggests that the two phenomena are related. Both effects…
We apply a recently developed theory of the nonphononic vibrational density of states (DOS) in glasses to investigate the impact of local frozen-in stresses on the low-temperature specific heat. Using a completely harmonic description we…
The off-equilibrium dynamics of a monatomic Lennard-Jones glass is investigated after sudden isothermal density jumps (crunch) from well equilibrated liquid configurations towards the glassy state. The generalized fluctuation-dissipation…
We propose that acousto-optical coupling of the electric field to strain fields around defects in disordered $^4$He is causing an increase of the dielectric function with decreasing temperature due to the arrested dynamics of defect…
A series of four sigma-Fe(100-x)Mo(x) samples was investigated with ac magnetic susceptibility measurements. An evidence was found that the ground magnetic state of the samples is constituted by a spin glass (SG) with the spin glass…
Sigma-phase Fe0.525Cr0.455Ni0.020 alloy was studied by means of M\"ossbauer spectrometry in the temperature range of 5-293 K. The average center shift, <CS>, determined from the recorded M\"ossbauer spectra was shown to significantly…
We have used 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction to study the magnetic and vibrational properties of FeAl2. FeAl2 is an ordered intermetallic with a large Fe local moment, and a complex crystal structure with site-occupation…
We review a model--based rather than phenomenological approach to low--temperature anomalies in glasses. Specifically, we present a solvable model inspired by spin--glass theory that exhibits both, a glassy low--temperature phase, and a…