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Volume 110, Number 4, May 2015
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Article Number | 47003 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/110/47003 | |
Published online | 29 May 2015 |
Agreement of classical Kubo theory with the infrared dispersion curves n(ω) of ionic crystals
1 Department of Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Milano - Via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
2 DMMT, Università di Brescia - Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Received: 1 April 2015
Accepted: 11 May 2015
The theoretical dispersion curves (refractive index vs. frequency) of ionic crystals in the infrared domain are expressed, within the Green-Kubo theory, in terms of a time correlation function involving the motion of the ions only. The aim of this paper is to investigate how well the experimental data are reproduced by a classical approximation of the theory, in which the time correlation functions are expressed in terms of the ions orbits. We report the results of molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations for the ions motions of a LiF lattice of 4096 ions at room temperature. The theoretical curves thus obtained are in surprisingly good agreement with the experimental data, essentially over the whole infrared domain. This shows that at room temperature the motion of the ions develops essentially in a classical regime.
PACS: 78.20.Ci – Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity) / 63.20.dk – First-principles theory / 63.20.Ry – Anharmonic lattice modes
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