Local vibrations in fcc crystals with two-parametric substitutional impurities

The threshold parameters of defects (the mass defect and the relative change in the force constants) are determined at which local vibrations start to occur in an fcc crystal with substitutional impurities. The characteristics of local vibrations are investigated, and the influence of the defect parameters on the frequency of local vibrations and their decay rate with distance from the impurity atom is analyzed. The frequencies and the intensities of local vibrations are calculated for the nearest neighboring atoms of an impurity, which, combined with the impurity atom, form a defect cluster.