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An increasing number of theoretical calculations on few-layer materials have been reporting a non-zero sound velocity for all three acoustic phonon modes. In contrast with these reports, here we show that the lowest phonon dispersion branch…
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The rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) has enabled efficient, accurate predictions of diverse material properties across broad chemical spaces. While their capability for modeling phonon properties is…
We study the energetic stability and structural features of bimetallic metal-organic frameworks. Such heterometallic MOFs, which can result from partial substitutions between two types of cations, can have specific physical or chemical…
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Phonon quasi-particles have been monumental in microscopically understanding thermodynamics and transport properties in condensed matter for decades. Phonons have one-to-one correspondence with harmonic eigenstates and their energies are…
Structuring materials is one mechanism to influence the thermal conductivity and thus thermoelectric efficiency. In order to investigate the scattering of phonons in multilayer structures we developed a beam matching technique, which is…
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