J Phys Condens Matter
February 2022
The anharmonic phonon properties of type-I filled inorganic clathrates BaGaGeand SrGaGeare obtained from the first-principles calculations by considering the temperature-dependent sampling of the potential energy surface and quartic phonon renormalization. Owing to the weak binding of guest atoms with the host lattice, the obtained guest modes undergo strong renormalization with temperature and become stiffer by up to 50% at room temperature in SrGaGe. The calculated phonon frequencies and associated thermal mean squared displacements are comparable with experiments despite the on-centering of guest atoms at cage centers in both clathrates.
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