Determination of acoustic phonon anharmonicities via second-order Raman scattering in CuI

Abstract

We demonstrate the determination of anharmonic acoustic phonon properties via second-order Raman scattering exemplarily on copper iodide single crystals. The origin of multi-phonon features from the second-order Raman spectra was assigned by the support of the calculated 2-phonon density of states. In this way, the temperature dependence of acoustic phonons was determined down to 10\,K. To determine independently the harmonic contributions of respective acoustic phonons, density functional theory (DFT) in quasi-harmonic approximation was used. Finally, the anharmonic contributions were determined. The results are in agreement with earlier publications and extend CuI's determined acoustic phonon properties to lower temperatures with higher accuracy. This approach demonstrates that it is possible to characterize the acoustic anharmonicities via Raman scattering down to zero-temperature renormalization constants of at least 0.1\,cm${}^{-1}$.

arXiv comment10 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables

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