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The 40 pages that link to Phonon, each with the reason it gives.

• PhotonCompared with: Phonons are quasiparticles in matter, whereas photons are quanta of the electromagnetic field.

• Thermal conductivityRelated: In insulating crystals, phonons carry much of the heat measured by conductivity.

• Crystal latticeRelated: Phonons describe how lattice vibrations carry heat and interact with electrons.

• SuperconductivityRelated: In conventional superconductors, phonons mediate the effective attraction that binds Cooper pairs.

• Quantum harmonic oscillatorRelated: Each lattice vibration mode behaves as an independent quantum oscillator in the harmonic approximation.

• Density functional theoryRelated: Calculated forces and energies can predict lattice vibrations and their effects on materials.

• SuperfluidityRelated: At low speeds, phonons are the principal excitations that can limit superfluid flow.

• Thermal conductionRelated: Phonons carry much of the heat through electrically insulating crystals.

• BCS theoryRelated: Phonons are the lattice excitations that mediate conventional pairing.

• BosonBroader topic: Phonons are bosonic excitations used to describe heat and sound in solids.

• Harmonic oscillatorBroader topic: Lattice vibrations can be decomposed into quantized harmonic normal modes.

• Carbon nanotubeRelated: Phonons carry heat through a nanotube’s carbon lattice.

• Mössbauer spectroscopyRelated: The recoil-free fraction corresponds to events that do not create phonons.

• Dispersion relationBroader topic: A crystal’s phonon dispersion maps vibrational frequency across its wave vectors.

• Condensed matter physicsRelated: Lattice vibrations carry heat and can mediate electron pairing in some superconductors.

• Debye modelNarrower topic: The model counts lattice-vibration modes as phonons to calculate their thermal energy.

• Solid-state physicsRelated: Phonons carry heat and scatter electrons in crystalline materials.

• Effective massCompared with: Phonon effective mass can describe lattice response, unlike the common electronic band-mass setting.

• Fourier's lawRelated: Phonon transport explains conductivity microscopically and reveals limits of the macroscopic law.

• Peter DebyeRelated: The Debye model treats solid vibrations through a spectrum of acoustic modes later described as phonons.

• AnharmonicityNarrower topic: Interactions among phonons arise from anharmonic terms in the lattice potential.

• Dulong–Petit lawCompared with: Quantum phonons explain why the classical prediction fails at low temperatures.

• Electron scatteringRelated: Electron–phonon interactions scatter electrons as lattice vibrations exchange energy and momentum.

• QuasiparticleBroader topic: It is a quasiparticle used to describe quantized lattice vibrations.

• Inelastic scatteringRelated: Energy transferred to lattice vibrations is commonly described as phonon creation or annihilation.

• Bose–Einstein distributionRelated: Thermal phonon populations are calculated using Bose–Einstein occupation.

• Goldstone theoremBroader topic: Long-wavelength acoustic phonons are Goldstone modes associated with broken continuous translation symmetry.

• Beryllium oxideRelated: Phonons carry much of the heat through crystalline BeO.

• PolaronNarrower topic: Phonons describe the lattice motion that a carrier excites and carries with it.

• Terahertz radiationRelated: Lattice phonons often interact strongly with terahertz radiation.

• First-principles calculationBroader topic: First-principles force calculations can predict vibrational modes and related thermal properties.

• Bertram BrockhouseRelated: Inelastic neutron measurements revealed phonon energies and dispersion in crystals.

• NanostructuresNarrower topic: Confinement and interfaces can alter vibrational heat transport at nanoscale.

• Rudolf MössbauerRelated: Mössbauer absorption occurs when the recoil is taken up without creating a phonon.

• Wiedemann–Franz lawRelated: Phonons carry heat without carrying electrical charge, so they can raise the measured ratio.

• PlasmonCompared with: Phonons quantize collective motion of ions rather than free-electron density.

• Superfluid helium-4Related: Phonons are the low-energy excitations that contribute to helium-4’s normal component.

• Einstein solidNarrower topic: Phonons describe lattice vibrations collectively, unlike the model’s independent atomic oscillators.

• Debye T³ lawBroader topic: The thermal population of low-energy phonons determines the lattice heat capacity.

• Thermal conductivity and resistivityRelated: Phonons carry heat without carrying electric charge, separating thermal from electrical transport.