Correlation effects among thermal displacements of atoms from diffuse neutron scattering measurements

Sakuma, Takashi*; Mohapatra, S. R.*; Yokokawa, Jo*; Shimizu, Norifumi*; Isozaki, Nobuhiro*; Uehara, Hiroyuki*; Xianglian*; Basar, K.*; Takahashi, Haruyuki*; Kamishima, Osamu*; et al.

Proceedings of 12th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics and 15th Chinese Conference on Solid State Ionics, p.439 - 445, 2010/00

Diffuse neutron scattering intensities from ionic crystals, covalent crystals and metal crystals are analyzed by including the correlation effects among thermal displacements of atoms into the function describing background intensity. The obtained values of correlation effects among first nearest neighboring atoms are 0.7 near room temperature. The values of the correlation effects do not depend much on the type of the crystal binding near room temperature. The values of correlation effects decrease rapidly with the increase of inter-atomic distances. The correlation effects also decrease with the decrease of temperature.