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The room temperature phonon dispersion curves of sodium have been calculated using the self-consistent harmonic approximation with the cubic anharmonic term treated as a perturbation. The results agree very well with the experimental data of Millington and Squires.
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Glyde et al. (1971) studied this question.
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