A tight-binding molecular dynamics study of phonon anharmonic effects in diamond and graphite

Abstract
We study the temperature dependence of phonon frequency shifts and phonon linewidths in diamond and graphite using tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations. The calculation of one-phonon spectral intensities of several modes through velocity - velocity correlation functions allows a quantitative and nonperturbative study of these anharmonic effects. Our results for the zone-centre optical mode of diamond, for which experimental data are available, agree very well with first-order Raman-scattering measurements.