Work already published under the above topic by \u LUDWIG and the author I was limited to crystal temperatures above the Debye temperature, as it treated the lattice vibrations by classical statistics. In this paper, a complete quantum-statistical treatmen~c is presented. The essential features of the high temperature results remain unchanged: New, temperature dependent dispersion curves may be introduced which, for long waves, are determined by the isolhe~mal elastic constants.
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