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Peculiarities of ultrasonic propagation in quasi-one-dimensional Peierls dielectrics

A. S. RozhavskiǐPhysicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, KharkovA. V. NedzvetskiiPhysicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, KharkovI. O. KulikPhysicotechnical Institute of Low Temperatures, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov

Soviet Journal of Low Temperature Physicsjournal1988en

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Abstract

The theory is constructed for the propagation of longitudinal ultrasound in a quasi-one-dimensional Peierls dielectric (of the type TaS3) containing a charge density wave (CDW). It is shown that if kinks are excited in a CDW by an electric field, they would induce kink-like nonlinear excitations in the acoustic subsystem as a result of deformation interaction. The bound states of CDW and sound propagate at velocities differing from the velocity of sound. These nonlinear excitations can be observed in the scattering of small-amplitude ultrasound. The scattering of linear ultrasound by kinks produces a giant amplitude enhancement in the transmitted wave and the reflected wave also has a similarly large amplitude.

Topics

Microwave and Dielectric Measurement Techniques Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies

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DOI: 10.1063/10.0031874

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