A comment on the heat capacity of an anharmonic crystal at high temperatures
- 28 March 1973
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 6 (6), L125-L127
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/6/6/002
Abstract
The inclusion of the effects of thermal expansion on the heat capacity at constant volume of an anharmonic crystal is discussed. It is shown that a correction which has been included in recent calculations should not be present, and in fact corresponds to the difference Cp-Cv.Keywords
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