The anomalous temperature behavior of the Raman scattering bands at superionic phase transition of Cu 6 PS 5 Br is revealed. Using density functional perturbation theory within local density approximation, ab initio long-wavelength phonons have been obtained for high-symmetry cubic structure. In the calculated phonon spectrum two unstable modes indicate the experimentally observed sequence of ferroelastic and superionic phase transitions.
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