| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 1, April 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 96 - 102 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: structural, mechanical and thermal properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10508-1 | |
| Published online | 01 March 2006 | |
Glass-like behaviour of thermal conductivity of 
–
solid solutions
1
Institute for Low Temperatures and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences PN 1410, 50-950 Wrocław, Poland
2
Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - 47 Lenin Ave., Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
Received:
12
December
2005
Accepted:
9
February
2006
Some mixed crystals show a low-temperature thermal-conductivity
dependence on temperature similar to that of amorphous
solids. This phenomenon is usually ascribed to a disorder of
another kind. In the current paper we report results of
measurements of the thermal conductivity of – solid
solution which also displays a glass-like behaviour for some
concentrations of deuterated methane. Here, however, the disorder
appearing at these concentrations of cannot account for the
characteristic plateau. Instead, we explain it in terms of an
enhancement of the phonon-rotation interaction resulting from lowering
the symmetry of the molecular field.
PACS: 66.70.+f – Nonelectronic thermal conduction and heat-pulse propagation in solids; thermal waves / 63.20.Mt – Phonon-defect interactions
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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