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Statistical and Low Temperature Physics - University of Liverpool

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Insulators<br />

The overall behaviour <strong>of</strong> the heat capacity due to phonons is<br />

shown in the left figure. In the lectures on phonons, we have<br />

learnt that it reaches a constant at high temperature, <strong>and</strong> goes<br />

to zero at low temperature.<br />

C. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State <strong>Physics</strong>, 8th edn. (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2004)<br />

L. Finegold, N.E. Phillips: Phys. Rev. 177, 1383 (1969)<br />

We have also seen that at low temperatures, the heat capacity<br />

is proportional to T 3 . Plotting C against T 3 would give a<br />

straight line, as shown on the right.<br />

<strong>Statistical</strong> <strong>Physics</strong> 29 Oct - Dec 2009

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