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Alloying scattering of phonons is particularly effective in reducing the thermal conductivity. The alloying model considers the mass and strain fluctuations but the substitutional atoms are assumed to be positioned at the ideal lattice point, i.e., without lattice distortion. In the real case, the existence of the lattice distortion in the alloy is inevitable, and it should have an additional contribution...