Low-Temperature Specific Heat and Thermal Conductivity of Noncrystalline Solids
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- 8 November 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 27 (19) , 1280-1282
Abstract
We propose a semiphenomenological model for the elementary phonon excitations in noncrystalline solids. This model can explain the low-temperature anomalies in the specific heat and thermal conductivity of amorphous materials which have been found in recent experiments.Keywords
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