Origin of the boson peak in systems with lattice disorder

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1255-1258

  Taraskin, S N ^a   Loh, Y L ^a   Natarajan, G ^a   Elliott, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOSON PEAK; HYBRIDIZATION EFFECTS; LATTICE DISORDER;

LATTICE VIBRATIONS;

EID: 0035252138     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1255     Document Type: Article

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