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We report on a joint theoretical and experimental study of the vibrational dynamics of the type-I clathrates A8Sn44□2 (A = K, Rb, Cs, and □ stands for a vacancy) by high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering experiments combined with low-temperature specific heat measurements (2–300 K). Ab initio lattice dynamics calculations were performed on hypothetical vacancy-free A8Sn46 clathrates in order to determine the phonon dispersions and vibrational density of states Z ( ω ). The temperature dependence of the generalized vibrational density of states (GVDOS) was traced from 420 K down to 50 K, paying particular attention to the low-energy region of the GVDOS spectra. In the Cs and Rb compounds, the inelastic signal at low energies is dominated by several peaks mainly associated with the dynamics of the alkali metal atoms A in the polyhedral cages of the clathrate structure. In contrast, the low-energy spectrum of the K compound features a more pronounced contribution of the weighed modes of the framework S...

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Vibrational dynamics of the type-I clathrates <i>A</i>8Sn44□2 (<i>A</i> = Cs, Rb, K) from lattice-dynamics calculations, inelastic neutron scattering, and specific heat measurements

Vibrational dynamics of the type-I clathrates A8Sn44□2 (A = Cs, Rb, K) from lattice-dynamics calculations, inelastic neutron scattering, and specific heat measurements