Discovery unravels how atomic vibrations emerge in nanomaterials

ScienceDaily
Feb 4, 2022, 2:52 pm365 pts
A hundred years of physics tells us that collective atomic vibrations, called phonons, can behave like particles or waves. When they hit an interface between two materials, they can bounce off like a tennis ball. If the materials are thin and repeating, as in a superlattice, the phonons can jump between…

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