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What Happens to Energy When Phonons are Damped?
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[QUOTE="dRic2, post: 6503531, member: 638830"] Thank you for the answer. One more question: suppose we start with the simple Born-Oppenheimer approximation to separate electron and ion dynamics. In doing so we obtain a phonon hamiltonian like ##H = K + E## where ##K## is the ion kinetic energy and ##E## is the potential in which the move. In this simple picture, we are neglecting all the electron-phonon scatterings. So since phonons do not interact with electrons, the only possible mechanism to lose energy is through heat generation, right? [/QUOTE]
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