Sodium chloride has a Debye temperature

PHYSICS · Subjective · Fermi University Physics · Condensed Matter, Materials & Soft Matter · Lattice dynamics and thermal properties of solids · Lattice dynamics and thermal properties of solids

Solid State Physics, Ch Phonons: quantisation, occupation and inelastic scattering

Problem

Sodium chloride has a Debye temperature ΘD=321 K\Theta_D=321\,\mathrm{K}. Using the Debye density of modes, calculate the zero-point energy per atom of sodium chloride, in meV.

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