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SUBMITTER: Cammarata A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075604 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
RSC advances 20191118 64
Phonon-phonon scattering processes are the crucial phenomena which account for phonon decay, thermal expansion, heat transfer, protein dynamics, spin relaxation and related quantities. In this work, we show how the symmetries of the system determine which scattering processes are allowed at any order of anharmonic approximation, irrespective of the chemical composition. We also discuss how to control the system symmetries to switch on and off any single scattering process. We apply the presented ...[more]