Semiquantitative scattering theory of amorphous materials
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Semiquantitative scattering theory of amorphous materials
It is argued that the topological disorder in a small region of an amorphous solid can be described by the local strain field related to the local reference crystal. A localized state spread only in one distorted region can be viewed as the consequence of superposition among some Bloch waves and its scattering waves caused by the disorder. A semiclassical approximation is used to calculate the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1098-0121,1550-235X
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.78.195208