We demonstrate how supercell implementations of conventional lattice dynamical calculations can be used to determine the extent and nature of disorder-induced broadening in the phonon dispersion spectrum of disordered crystalline materials. The approach taken relies on band unfolding, and is first benchmarked against virtual crystal approximation phonon calculations. The different effects of mass and interaction disorder on the phonon broadening are then presented, focussing on the example of a simple cubic binary alloy. For the mass disorder example, the effect of introducing correlated disorder is also explored by varying the fraction of homoatomic and heteroatomic neighbours. Systematic progression in the degree of phonon broadening, on the one hand, and the form of the phonon dispersion curves from primitive to face-centered cubic type, on the other hand, is observed as homoatomic neighbours are disfavoured. The implications for rationalising selection rule violations in disordered materials and for using inelastic neutron scattering measurements as a means of characterising disorder are discussed.
Effects of dilution and disorder on magnetism in diluted spin systems
从稀磁半导体的铁磁稳定性出发,研究了组态无序对稀磁海森堡自旋系统磁性的影响。通过Tyablikov近似,磁振子格林函数的运动方程被解耦。在超原胞方法中,磁性离子的浓度由超原胞的大小决定,在我们的方法中,每个超原胞中只有一个磁性离子。为了区分稀释和无序的影响,使用了两种超级单元:\textit{diluted and ordered}情况和\textit{diluted and disordered}情况。在增广空间中讨论了无序磁振子格林函数的位形平均。两个超原胞间的随机交换积分被视为一个矩阵。得到的磁振子谱密度被用来计算磁化强度和居里温度的温度依赖性。结果表明:(1)稀释导致两个磁性离子的平均距离增大,有效交换积分进一步降低,是居里温度降低的主要原因:(2)磁性离子的空间位置无序导致两个超原胞之间交换积分的分散,并使铁磁转变温度略有变化;(iii)距离依赖的指数阻尼明显降低居里温度,在任何唯象模型中应仔细设置。
Supplemental Material for Comment on "Excitons in Molecular Aggregates with Levy Disorder: Anomalous Localization and Exchange Broadening of Optical Spectra", Phys.Rev.Lett. 109, 259701 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2779)
在他们的信“Excitons in Molecular Aggregates with Levy Disorder:Anomalous Localization and Exchange Broadening of Optical Spectra”中,Alfrefeld等人预测了交换加宽和吸收带蓝移的存在,以及具有重尾无序的J聚集体中吸收带激子的局域长度的非普遍无序标度,他们将其与之前分析的高斯和洛伦兹情况进行了对比。观察结果解释了另一个本地化机制,链分割的异常值在重尾的无序分布。我们认为,以前已知的理论并没有打破,因此预计在评论工作中调查的吸收带的属性。
Response to rebuttal to Comment on Letter "Excitons in Molecular Aggregates with Levy Disorder: Anomalous Localization and Exchange Broadening of Optical Spectra", Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 259701 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2779)
Eigenmodes of a disordered FeCo magnonic crystal at finite temperatures
在这份报告中,我们提出了一个系统的研究磁振子模式的无序Fe $_{0.5}$ Co $_{0.5}$合金的基础上海森堡哈密顿使用两个互补的方法。为了考虑替代无序,一方面我们直接平均的横向磁化率在真实空间中不同的无序配置,另一方面,我们使用相干势近似(CPA)。虽然直接平均的方法在数值上是精确的,但它在计算上是昂贵的,并且受到可以在计算机上模拟的超原胞的最大尺寸的限制。相反,CPA不受这个缺点,并产生一个廉价的数值方案。因此,我们还比较了这两种方法的结果,并表明,CPA给出了非常好的结果,为大多数的磁性,包括磁振子能量和本征模的空间形状。然而,事实证明,虽然再现的一般趋势,CPA系统地低估了无序引起的阻尼的磁振子。这提供了证据表明,在这个系统中的杂质散射的物理是由非本地效应在CPA失踪。最后,我们研究了系统的实空间本征模,包括它们的空间形状,并在随机相位近似下分析了它们的温度依赖性。