Effect of the electropositive elements A = Sc, La, and Ce on the microscopic dynamics of AV2Al20
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Michael Marek Koza, Andreas Leithe-Jasper, Erik Sischka, Walter Schnelle, Horst Borrmann, Hannu Mutka, Yuri Grin
We report on the inelastic response of AV2Al20 (with A = Sc, La and Ce) probed by high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering experiments. Intense signals associated with the dynamics of Sc, La and Ce are identified in the low-energy range at 6–14 meV in ScV2Al20 and at 8–16 meV in LaV2Al20 and CeV2Al20. Their response to temperature changes between 2 and 300 K reveals a very weak softening of the modes upon heating in LaV2Al20 and CeV2Al20 and a distinguished blue shift by about 2 meV in ScV2Al20. By means of density functional theory (DFT) and lattice dynamics calculations (LDC) we show that the unusual anharmonicity of the Sc-dominated modes is due to the local potential of Sc featured by a strong quartic term. The vibrational dynamics of ScV2Al20 as well as of LaV2Al20 and CeV2Al20 is reproduced by a set of eigenmodes. To screen the validity of the DFT and LDC results they are confronted with data from X-ray diffraction measurements. The effect of the strong phonon renormalization in ScV2Al20 on thermodynamic observables is computed on grounds of the LDC derived inelastic response. To set the data in a general context of AV2Al20 compounds and their physical properties we report in addition computer and experimental results of the binary V2Al20 compound.
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