Phys. Rev. B 79, 134304 (2009) [5 pages]Intrinsic localized modes observed in the high-temperature vibrational spectrum of NaI
See accompanying Physics Synopsis Inelastic neutron measurements of the high-temperature lattice excitations in NaI show that in thermal equilibrium at 555 K an intrinsic mode, localized in three dimensions, occurs at a single frequency near the center of the spectral phonon gap, polarized along [111]. At higher temperatures the intrinsic localized mode gains intensity. Higher energy inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering measurements on a room-temperature NaI crystal indicate that the creation energy of the ground state of the intrinsic localized mode is 299 meV. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134304
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134304
PACS:
63.20.Pw, 63.20.dd, 63.20.Ry, 78.70.Nx
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