Scaling of the phonon damping with the wavevector in glasses is found to be different from the traditionally assumed Rayleigh scattering, and related to surprising, long-range correlations in the local elasticity matrix.
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Dyre, J. Rayleigh scattering revisited. Nature Mater 15, 1150–1151 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4735
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