Crystal metamorphosis at stress extremes: how soft phonons turn into lattice defects

r The Author(s) 2016 At 0 K, phonon instability controls the ideal strength and the ultrafast dynamics of defect nucleation in perfect crystals under high stress. However, how a soft phonon evolves into a lattice defect is still unclear. Here, we develop a full-Brillouin zone soft-phonon-searching a...

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Main Authors: Liu, Xiaohui, Gu, Jianfeng, Shen, Yao, Li, Ju
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117045
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1514-2971
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7841-8058