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Formal elasticity of four carbon allotropes: I. The inner elastic constants, internal strain tensors, and zone-centre optic mode frequencies and their pressure dependences

C S G Cousins

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The symmetry structure of the six families of inner elastic constants (derivatives of the free energy with respect to one, two, or three components of the relative sublattice displacement) that enter the elasticity, through the third order, of the cubic and hexagonal diamond allotropes and of the hexagonal and rhombohedral graphite allotropes is analysed in detail. This is followed by derivations (i) of the forms of the linear and quadratic internal strain tensors, (ii) of the expressions for the zone-centre optic mode frequencies and eigenvectors, and (iii) of the effective inner elastic constants that determine these frequencies in arbitrarily strained crystals together with (iv) the derived pressure dependences of those frequencies.


PACS

65.40.G- Other thermodynamical quantities

62.20.D- Elasticity

61.50.Ah Theory of crystal structure, crystal symmetry; calculations and modeling

Subjects

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 20 (27 May 2002)

Received 20 December 2001

Published 9 May 2002



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