Abstract
A phenomenological one-parameter model potential that includes sp-d hybridization and core--core exchange contributions is used to calculate the phonon dispersion curves in the lattice dynamics of the body-centered cubic alkaline-earth metal, barium. There is good overall agreement between theory and experiment, and in particular, in the [xi00] direction we obtained frequencies of the transverse dispersion curves that are lower than those of the longitudinal dispersion curves along the [100] symmetry direction thereby restoring the normal ordering of the branches.PACS Nos.: 63.20D
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy