van der Waals three-body force shell model (VTSM) for the lattice dynamical studies of thallous bromide

• Published in: Physica scripta Vol. 80; no. 6; pp. 065603 - 065603 (6)
• Main Authors: Tiwari, Sarvesh K, Pandey, L K, Shukla, Lal Ji, Upadhyaya, K S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 01.12.2009
• ISSN: 1402-4896; 0031-8949; 1402-4896
• DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/80/06/065603

The van der Waals three-body force shell model (VTSM) has been developed by modifying the three-body force shell model (TSM) for the lattice dynamics of ionic crystals with cesium chloride (CsCl) structure. This new model incorporates van der Waals interactions along with long-range Coulomb interactions, three-body interactions and short-range second neighbour interactions in the framework of a rigid shell model (RSM). In the present paper, VTSM has been used to study the lattice dynamics of thallous bromide (TlBr), from which adequacy of VTSM has been established. A comparative study of the dynamical behaviour of TlBr has also been done between the present model and TSM, the model over which modification has been made to obtain the present model VTSM. Good agreement has been observed between the theoretical and experimental results, which give confidence that it is an appropriate model for the complete description of ionic crystals with CsCl structure.