Abstract
Using inelastic neutron scattering we have investigated the external mode spectrum of solid in the orientationally ordered phase. Hydrostatic pressures 1 bar kbar and temperatures K were covered. The entire density of states shows a pronounced pressure dependence. In accordance with theory1 translational phonons have larger pressure coefficients meV/kbar) than librons meV/kbar). Anharmonic frequency shifts become smaller upon increasing the pressure. It is conjectured that they are related to the orientational disorder in the system arising from competing H and P orientations. A direct link between libron softening and the order-disorder phase transition cannot be established.
- Received 5 August 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.3287
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