[Pw_forum] LO-TO splitting in dynmat.x
Eyvaz Isaev
eyvaz_isaev at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 28 18:00:35 CEST 2011
From: xirainbow <nkxirainbow at gmail.com>
> Is there LO-TO splitting far away from Gamma point?
No.
>How large is the influence range of LO-TO splitting in Brillouin zone? One
>hundred percent?
It depends on the macroscopic dielectric constant and Born effective charge,
see any good solid state physics textbook
or review paper Rev.Mod.Phys. 73, 515 (2001).
It is clear that the effect is more pronounced for (polar) insulators (large
band gap).
Bests,
Eyvaz.
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Prof. Eyvaz Isaev,
Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linkoping University,
Sweden
Theoretical Physics Department, Moscow State Institute of Steel & Alloys,
Russia,
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