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Lattice anharmonicity effects in fluorite oxide single crystals and anomalous increase in phonon lifetime in ceria at elevated temperature
Amey Khanolkar, Saqeeb Adnan, Md Minaruzzaman +6
We investigate the temperature dependence of the frequency and linewidth of the triply-degenerate T zone-centered optical phonon in flux-grown ceria and hydrothermally-synth…
Experimental Confirmation of First-Principles Thermal Conductivity in Zirconium-Doped ThO
Ella Kartika Pek, Zilong Hua, Amey Khanolkar +7
The degradation of thermal conductivity in advanced nuclear fuels due to the accumulation of fission products and irradiation-induced defects is inevitable, and must be considered…
Impact of dynamic Jahn-Teller effect on magnetic excitations, lattice vibration, and thermal conductivity in UxTh1-xO2 system
Saqeeb Adnan, Zilong Hua, Puspa Upreti +11
Vibrational and magnetic properties of single-crystal uranium-thorium dioxide (UxTh1-xO2) with a full range of 0<x<1 is investigated. Thorium dioxide is a diamagnet whose thermal p…
Thermal conductivity suppression in uranium-doped thorium dioxide due to phonon resonant scattering
Zilong Hua, Saqeeb Adnan, Amey R. Khanolkar +7
In this work, the thermal transport properties of thorium dioxide (ThO, thoria) with low levels of substitutional uranium (U) doping are explored. We observe strong indications…
Temperature-dependent elastic constants of thorium dioxide probed using time-domain Brillouin scattering
Amey Khanolkar, Yuzhou Wang, Cody A. Dennett +4
We report the adiabatic elastic constants of single-crystal thorium dioxide over a temperature range of 77 - 350 K. Time-domain Brillouin scattering (TDBS), an all-optical, non-con…
Thermal Energy Transport in Oxide Nuclear Fuel
David H. Hurley, Anter El-Azab, Matthew S. Bryan +13
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In t…
The generalized quasiharmonic approximation via space group irreducible derivatives
Mark A. Mathis, Amey Khanolkar, Lyuwen Fu +9
The quasiharmonic approximation (QHA) is the simplest nontrivial approximation for interacting phonons under constant pressure, bringing the effects of anharmonicity into temperatu…
Validating First-Principles Phonon Lifetimes via Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Enda Xiao, Hao Ma, Matthew S. Bryan +10
Phonon lifetimes are a key component of quasiparticle theories of transport, yet first-principles lifetimes are rarely directly compared to inelastic neutron scattering (INS) resul…