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We derive a compact matrix expression for the linear thermal expansion coefficients (TECs) for a general orthorhombic system which relates the elastic properties and the integrated quantities based on deformation and mode dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Chee Kwan Gan , Jian Rui Soh , Yun Liu

The anharmonicity resulted from the intrinsic phonon interaction is neglected by quasiharmonic approximation. Although the intensive researches about anharmonicity have been done, up to now the free energy contributed by the anharmonicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhongqing Wu , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

We present a first-principles lattice calculations to comprehend the thermal expansion $\alpha(T)$ and lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa_{ph}$ of ScAgC. The obtained positive frequencies of phonon dispersion shows the dynamical stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-04 Vinod Kumar Solet , Sudhir Kumar Pandey

The occurrence of thermal transport phenomena is widespread, exerting a pivotal influence on the functionality of diverse electronic and thermo-electric energy-conversion devices. The traditional first-principles theory governing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-20 Soham Mandal , Manish Jain , Prabal K. Maiti

We investigate the thermal behavior of the (111) surface of silver, using phonon frequencies obtained from ab initio total energy calculations, and anharmonic effects treated within a quasiharmonic approximation. Our results reproduce the…

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 Shobhana Narasimhan , Matthias Scheffler

We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Lorenzo Paulatto , Francesco Mauri , Michele Lazzeri

Phonon anharmonicity is ubiquitous in real materials and is crucial for understanding thermal properties and phase stability. In this work, we show that anharmonic phonon modes can be obtained by maximizing their vibration stability during…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Wenjing Li , Yong Lu , Fawei Zheng

We investigate the harmonic and anharmonic contributions to the phonon spectrum of lead telluride, and perform a complete characterization of how the anharmonic effects dominate the phonons in PbTe as temperature increases. This effect is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-10 A. H. Romero , E. K. U. Gross , M. J. Verstraete , Olle Hellman

We investigate three dimensional anharmonic phonons in tetrahedral symmetry and superconductivity mediated by these phonons. Three dimensional anharmonic phonon spectra are calculated directly by solving Schr\"odinger equation and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 Kazumasa Hattori , Hirokazu Tsunetsugu

The counter-intuitive phenomenon of pressure-induced softening in materials is likely to be caused by the same dynamical behaviour that produces negative thermal expansion. Through a combination of molecular dynamics simulation on an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhongsheng Wei , Lei Tan , Guanqun Cai , Anthony E Phillips , Ivan da Silva , Mark G Kibble , Martin T Dove

Recently colossal positive volume thermal expansion has been found in the framework compounds Ag3Co(CN)6 and Ag3Fe(CN)6. Phonon spectra have been measured using the inelastic neutron scattering technique as a function of temperature and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 R Mittal , M. Zbiri , H. Schober , S. N. Achary , A. K. Tyagi , S. L. Chaplot

Knowledge of lattice anharmonicity is essential to elucidate distinctive thermal properties in crystalline solids. Yet, accurate \textit{ab initio} investigations of lattice anharmonicity encounter difficulties owing to the cumbersome…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-13 Zhen Zhang , Dong-Bo Zhang , Tao Sun , Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Based on thermodynamic principles, we derive expressions quantifying the non-harmonic vibrational behavior of materials, which are rigorous yet easily evaluated from experimentally available data for the thermal expansion coefficient and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-29 Dipanshu Bansal , Amjad Aref , Gary Dargush , Olivier Delaire

Motivated by the absence of experimental superconductivity in the metallic Pm-3n phase of AlH3 despite the predictions, we reanalyze its vibrational and superconducting properties at pressures above 99 GPa making use of first-principles…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-05 Pugeng Hou , Francesco Belli , Raffaello Bianco , Ion Errea

The microscopic knowledge of the structural, energetic, and electronic properties of scandium fluoride is still incomplete, despite the relevance of this material as an intermediate for the manufacturing of Al-Sc alloys. In a work based on…

On the basis of the self-consistent phonon theory and the special displacement method, we develop an approach for the treatment of anharmonicity in solids. We show that this approach enables the efficient calculation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Marios Zacharias , George Volonakis , Feliciano Giustino , Jacky Even

We demonstrate an approach for calculating temperature-dependent quantum and anharmonic effects with beyond density-functional theory accuracy. By combining machine-learned potentials and the stochastic self-consistent harmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-03 Carla Verdi , Luigi Ranalli , Cesare Franchini , Georg Kresse

Metal-organic frameworks often display large positive or negative thermal expansion coefficients. MOF-74, a material envisioned for many applications does not display such a behavior. For this system, temperature-dependent x-ray diffraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 Tomas Kamencek , Benedikt Schrode , Roland Resel , Raffaele Ricco , Egbert Zojer

Materials based on cubic tetrahedrites (Cu$_{12}$Sb$_{4}$S$_{13}$) are useful thermoelectrics with unusual thermal and electrical transport properties, such as very low and nearly temperature-independent lattice thermal conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-28 Yi Xia , Vidvuds Ozolins , Chris Wolverton

We investigate the influence of three- and four-phonon scattering, perturbative anharmonic phonon renormalization, and off-diagonal terms of coherent phonons on the thermal conductivity of CsPbBr3 phase change perovskite, by using advanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-27 Xiaoying Wang , Zhibin Gao , Guimei Zhu , Jie Ren , Lei Hu , Jun Sun , Xiangdong Ding , Yi Xia , Baowen Li