THE METHOD OF HOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATIONS OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR-CRYSTALS - GENERAL FORMULATION AND ROTATIONAL INVARIANCES

Authors
SHARP ND WALMSLEY SH
Citation
Nd. Sharp et Sh. Walmsley, THE METHOD OF HOMOGENEOUS DEFORMATIONS OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR-CRYSTALS - GENERAL FORMULATION AND ROTATIONAL INVARIANCES, Chemical physics letters, 222(6), 1994, pp. 546-550
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
222
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
546 - 550
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1994)222:6<546:TMOHDO>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The method of homogencous deformations, in which macroscopic elastic p roperties are expressed directly in atomic terms, is developed in two parallel ways, one specially adapted to atomic and one to molecular cr ystals. The two are related by an unusual linear transformation. In pa rticular, the treatment enables the consequences of rotational invaria nce, which are straightforward for atomic crystals, to be deduced for the case of molecular crystals.