Similarity criteria for Debye temperatures of simple solids at compression

Abstract

A similarity criterion for the volume dependence of Debye temperatures of simple solids at compression is presented. It is shown that the volume dependences of the characteristic Debye temperatures of various solids fall on a single common curve in dimensionless coordinates. The validity of the model is tested on examples of solids with various types of interatomic forces – molecular crystal, ionic crystal, metals and covalent crystal.

Keywords:

• Equation of state
• High pressure
• Debye temperature
• Grüneisen parameter