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Point defect in solids: Shear dominance of the far-field energy

Jeppe C. Dyre

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0406759

Abstract

It is shown that the elastic energy far from a point defect in an isotropic solid is mainly shear elastic energy. The calculation, which is based on a standard dipole expansion, shows that no matter how large or small the bulk modulus is compared to the shear modulus, less than 10% of the distant point defect energy is associated with volume changes.

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