Breakdown of the Debye approximation for the acoustic modes with nanometric wavelengths in glasses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3659-3663

  Monaco, Giulio ^a   Giordano, Valentina M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Disordered systems; Elastic properties; Inelastic X ray scattering; Vibrational density of states

Indexed keywords

GLASS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BOSON; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 62649136443     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808965106     Document Type: Article

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