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Spontaneous Decay of Phonons
Author(s) -
Uritsky S. I.,
Novikov V. S.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.19650110106
Subject(s) - phonon , anharmonicity , scattering , relaxation (psychology) , physics , phonon scattering , condensed matter physics , crystal (programming language) , electron , optics , quantum mechanics , psychology , social psychology , computer science , programming language
The phonon‐scattering caused by the polarisation of the electron‐hole vacuum in a crystal is observed. The relaxation times of this process are estimated and compared with anharmonic scattering.