Phonon dynamics in liquid gallium

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We propose to measure the inelastic scattering S(Q,E) maps from gallium in its liquid phases across a wide range of temperatures. This proposal is based on a new prediction for the existence of transverse acoustic modes that show a gap in wave vector at zero energy. Performing an inelastic neutron scattering measurement at ISIS will give us a much richer data set than possible from only x-ray scattering, including obtaining data at higher values of Q, and enable us to use our new analysis tools to relate the observations with the dynamics of local atomic arrangements. We expect this work coupled with the data from inelastic x-ray scattering to lead to nothing short of a revolution in how we understand the differences between liquid and crystalline phases.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1820566-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/102112728
Provenance
Creator Mr Cillian Cockrell; Dr Kostya Trachenko; Mr Anders Jensen; Dr Oliver Dicks; Dr Duc Le; Dr Franz Demmel; Professor Martin Dove; Miss Ling Wang
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-06-28T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-05T14:26:15Z