Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options questions only not deleted user 25922

Collective excitations in periodic, elastic arrangements of atoms or molecules in condensed matter, like solids and some liquids. They are quasiparticle quantum modes of vibration of elastic structures of interacting particles.

2 votes
2 answers
496 views

Are phonons eigenstates of the momentum operator?

: $$ -i\hbar\nabla \Psi_{n \mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r})=\hbar \mathbf{k}\Psi_{n \mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r})+e^{i\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{r}}(-i\hbar\nabla )u_{n\mathbf{k}}(\mathbf{r}) \tag{0} $$ In the case of Phonons … My question comes from the fact that the demonstration that the electron Bloch function are not eigenstates of the momentum operator Eq. (0) does not hold for phonons, Eq. (2). …
Chaos's user avatar
  • 943
12 votes
2 answers
5k views

Why zero chemical potential does not allow the Bose-Einstein Condensation of Phonons?

Transient bose–einstein condensation of phonons. Physics Letters A, 321(5–6):381 – 387, 2004. … So at $T=0$ the number of phonons should be the smallest possible and all should be in the ground state. …
Chaos's user avatar
  • 943