Temperature-driven sodium-ion dynamical-to-static crossover in the zig-zag ordered phase of Na$_{0.5}$CoO$_2$
Shangfei Wu, Hengxin Tan, Di Wu, Mingshu Tan et autres
We employ polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy combined with first-principles calculations to study the sodium-ion lattice dynamics in a sodium zig-zag ordered cobaltate compound Na$_{0.5}$CoO$_2$. We detect two sodium phonon modes for the first time, and their mode frequencies are consistent with first-principles phonon …