Neutrons reveal key to extraordinary heat transport (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutrons reveal key to extraordinary heat transport

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When phonons act, vibrations of atoms carry heat. In crystals with broken translational symmetry, phasons made when atoms rearrange — shown by arrows— can also move heat, shown as pink waves.

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Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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