Surface Phonons and Other Localized Excitations

Details Surface Phonons and Other Localized Excitations Surface Phonons and Other Localized Excitations

1999-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908199v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

5 pages with 4 embedded postscript figures. This paper will appear in the American Journal of Physics

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.19405

The diatomic linear chain of masses coupled by harmonic springs is a textboook model for vibrational normal modes (phonons) in crystals. In addition to propagating acoustic and optic branches, this model is known to support a ``gap mode'' localized at the surface, provided the atom at the surface has light rather than heavy mass. An elementary argument is given which explains this mode and provides values for the frequency and localization length. By reinterpreting this mode in different ways, we obtain the frequency and localization lengths for three other interesting modes: (1) the surface vibrational mode of a light mass impurity at the surface of a monatomic chain; (2) the localized vibrational mode of a stacking fault in a diatomic chain; and (3) the localized vibrational mode of a light mass impurity in a monatomic chain.

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