Enhancement of Heat Pulses in Crystals due to Elastic Anisotropy

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Abstract
The generation of thermal acoustic waves by a heated metallic film on the surface of a dielectric crystal at low temperatures is discussed. It is shown that even if the waves produced correspond to a uniform distribution of directions of wave vector, there may be a large enhancement of energy flow in some crystallographic directions compared to the average. This effect arises because of elastic anisotropy. Explicit expressions are given for the enhancement expected in the principal directions of cubic crystals.

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