Thermal expansion and phonon anharmonicity of cuprite studied by inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio calculations. Saunders, C N, Kim, D S, Hellman, O, Smith, H L, Weadock, N J, Omelchenko, S T, Granroth, G E, Bernal-Choban, C M, Lohaus, S H, Abernathy, D L, & Fultz, B Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter, 105(17):174308, American Physical Society, May, 2022.
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Inelastic neutron scattering measurements were performed with a time-of-flight chopper spectrometer to observe phonons in all parts of the Brillouin zone of a single crystal of cuprite Cu2O. We reduced the experimental data to phonon dispersions in the high-symmetry directions, and changes between 10 and 300 K are reported. In this paper, we show ab initio quasiharmonic (QH) and anharmonic (AH) calculations of phonon dispersions. We performed all AH calculations with a temperature-dependent effective potential method. Both QH and AH calculations account for the small negative thermal expansion of cuprite at low temperatures. However, the measured temperature-dependent phonon behavior was predicted more accurately with the AH calculations than the QH ones. Nevertheless, at 300 K, the cubic AH used in this paper did not entirely account for the experimental phonon dispersions in cuprite.
@ARTICLE{Saunders2022-ad,
  title     = "{Thermal expansion and phonon anharmonicity of cuprite studied
               by inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio calculations}",
  author    = "Saunders, C N and Kim, D S and Hellman, O and Smith, H L and
               Weadock, N J and Omelchenko, S T and Granroth, G E and
               Bernal-Choban, C M and Lohaus, S H and Abernathy, D L and Fultz,
               B",
  abstract  = "Inelastic neutron scattering measurements were performed with a
               time-of-flight chopper spectrometer to observe phonons in all
               parts of the Brillouin zone of a single crystal of cuprite Cu2O.
               We reduced the experimental data to phonon dispersions in the
               high-symmetry directions, and changes between 10 and 300 K are
               reported. In this paper, we show ab initio quasiharmonic (QH)
               and anharmonic (AH) calculations of phonon dispersions. We
               performed all AH calculations with a temperature-dependent
               effective potential method. Both QH and AH calculations account
               for the small negative thermal expansion of cuprite at low
               temperatures. However, the measured temperature-dependent phonon
               behavior was predicted more accurately with the AH calculations
               than the QH ones. Nevertheless, at 300 K, the cubic AH used in
               this paper did not entirely account for the experimental phonon
               dispersions in cuprite.",
  journal   = "Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter",
  publisher = "American Physical Society",
  volume    =  105,
  number    =  17,
  pages     = "174308",
  month     =  may,
  year      =  2022,
  keywords  = "MyPapers (D.S. Kim);B.T. Futlz"
}

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