Phonon thermodynamics and elastic behavior of GaAs at high temperatures and pressures

Jane E. Herriman and Brent Fultz
Phys. Rev. B 101, 214108 – Published 11 June 2020
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Abstract

The phonons of wurtzite and zinc blende GaAs were calculated at simultaneously elevated temperature and pressure, and elastic constants were calculated as functions of pressure. Pressure caused instabilities of shorter-wavelength transverse acoustic modes in both wurtzite and zinc blende GaAs, causing them to fall to zero at 18 and 20 GPa, respectively. The Born stability criteria, which depend on elastic constants and only long wavelength phonons, therefore overestimated the pressure needed to induce instability at 0 K. At elevated temperatures, explicit anharmonicity pushes the onset of instability to higher pressures in both wurtzite and zinc blende GaAs. Phonon linewidth and densities of states data showed that the quasiharmonic approximation failed to account for temperature-induced phonon frequency shifts, and the quasiharmonic approximation became less reliable at elevated pressure. In general, the number of three-phonon processes increased with pressure, thereby increasing the temperature-driven broadening of phonon spectral lineshapes.

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  • Received 4 January 2020
  • Revised 12 April 2020
  • Accepted 27 May 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.214108

©2020 American Physical Society

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Jane E. Herriman1,2 and Brent Fultz1

  • 1Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2Quantum Simulations Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA

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Vol. 101, Iss. 21 — 1 June 2020

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