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Title: Nonperturbative Quantum Nature of the Dislocation–Phonon Interaction

Abstract

Despite the long history of dislocation–phonon interaction studies, there are many problems that have not been fully resolved during this development. These include an incompatibility between a perturbative approach and the long-range nature of a dislocation, the relation between static and dynamic scattering, and their capability of dealing with thermal transport phenomena for bulk material only. Here in this paper, by utilizing a fully quantized dislocation field, which we called a “dislon”, a phonon interacting with a dislocation is renormalized as a quasi-phonon, with shifted quasi-phonon energy, and accompanied by a finite quasi-phonon lifetime, which are reducible to classical results. A series of outstanding legacy issues including those above can be directly explained within this unified phonon renormalization approach. For instance, a renormalized phonon naturally resolves the decade-long debate between dynamic and static dislocation–phonon scattering approaches, as two limiting cases. In particular, at nanoscale, both the dynamic and static approaches break down, while the present renormalization approach remains valid by capturing the size effect, showing good agreement with lattice dynamics simulations.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [1]
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Department of Mechanical Engineering
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences Department
  3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Department of Physics
  4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1358012
Report Number(s):
BNL-113818-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984; R&D Project: MA015MACA; KC0201010
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577; SC0012567
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 17; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher:
American Chemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Dislocations; dislocation−phonon interaction; effective field theory; phonon transport; renormalization; thermal conductivity

Citation Formats

Li, Mingda, Ding, Zhiwei, Meng, Qingping, Zhou, Jiawei, Zhu, Yimei, Liu, Hong, Dresselhaus, M. S., and Chen, Gang. Nonperturbative Quantum Nature of the Dislocation–Phonon Interaction. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04756.
Li, Mingda, Ding, Zhiwei, Meng, Qingping, Zhou, Jiawei, Zhu, Yimei, Liu, Hong, Dresselhaus, M. S., & Chen, Gang. Nonperturbative Quantum Nature of the Dislocation–Phonon Interaction. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04756
Li, Mingda, Ding, Zhiwei, Meng, Qingping, Zhou, Jiawei, Zhu, Yimei, Liu, Hong, Dresselhaus, M. S., and Chen, Gang. Tue . "Nonperturbative Quantum Nature of the Dislocation–Phonon Interaction". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04756. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1358012.
@article{osti_1358012,
title = {Nonperturbative Quantum Nature of the Dislocation–Phonon Interaction},
author = {Li, Mingda and Ding, Zhiwei and Meng, Qingping and Zhou, Jiawei and Zhu, Yimei and Liu, Hong and Dresselhaus, M. S. and Chen, Gang},
abstractNote = {Despite the long history of dislocation–phonon interaction studies, there are many problems that have not been fully resolved during this development. These include an incompatibility between a perturbative approach and the long-range nature of a dislocation, the relation between static and dynamic scattering, and their capability of dealing with thermal transport phenomena for bulk material only. Here in this paper, by utilizing a fully quantized dislocation field, which we called a “dislon”, a phonon interacting with a dislocation is renormalized as a quasi-phonon, with shifted quasi-phonon energy, and accompanied by a finite quasi-phonon lifetime, which are reducible to classical results. A series of outstanding legacy issues including those above can be directly explained within this unified phonon renormalization approach. For instance, a renormalized phonon naturally resolves the decade-long debate between dynamic and static dislocation–phonon scattering approaches, as two limiting cases. In particular, at nanoscale, both the dynamic and static approaches break down, while the present renormalization approach remains valid by capturing the size effect, showing good agreement with lattice dynamics simulations.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04756},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 17,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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