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Anharmonic Decay of Vibrational States in Amorphous Silicon

Jaroslav Fabian, Philip B. Allen

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9605101

Abstract

Anharmonic decay rates are calculated for a realistic atomic model of amorphous silicon. The results show that the vibrational states decay on picosecond timescales and follow the two-mode density of states, similar to crystalline silicon, but somewhat faster. Surprisingly little change occurs for localized states. These results disagree with a recent experiment.

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