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Phys. Rev. B 79, 134304 (2009) [5 pages]

Intrinsic localized modes observed in the high-temperature vibrational spectrum of NaI

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M. E. Manley1, A. J. Sievers2, J. W. Lynn3, S. A. Kiselev2, N. I. Agladze2, Y. Chen3,4, A. Llobet5, and A. Alatas6
1Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
2Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501, USA
3NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
4Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
5Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
6Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Received 18 February 2009; published 22 April 2009

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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