The Phonon Mediated Anomalies of Thermal Expansion in Transition-Metal Componds and Emergent Nanostructures

Abstract. The negative expansion observed at low temperatures in specific crystallographic directions of complex structures with anisotropic interactions is explained by microscopic analysis within the tight-binding, quasi-harmonic approximation of lattice dynamics. The results agree with measurements on multilayer sandwiches of transition-metal dichalcogenides, high-temperature superconductors and relevant nanostructures including the carbon-based nanotubes.