The damping or attenuation coefficient of sound waves in solids due to impurities scales with the wavevector to the fourth power, also known as Rayleigh scattering. In amorphous solids, Rayleigh scattering may be enhanced by a logarithmic factor although computer simulations offer conflicting conclusions regarding this enhancement and its microscopic origin. We present a tensorial replica field-theoretic derivation based on heterogeneous or fluctuating elasticity (HE), which shows that long-range (power-law) spatial correlations of the elastic constants, is the origin of the logarithmic enhancement to Rayleigh scattering of phonons in amorphous solids. We also consider the case of zero spatial fluctuations in the elastic constants, and of power-law decaying fluctuations in the internal stresses. Also in this case the logarithmic enhancement to the Rayleigh scattering law can be derived from the proposed tensorial HE framework.
Analytical prediction of logarithmic Rayleigh scattering in amorphous solids from tensorial heterogeneous elasticity with power-law disorder / B. Cui, A. Zaccone. - In: SOFT MATTER. - ISSN 1744-683X. - (2020 Aug 03). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1039/d0sm00814a]
Analytical prediction of logarithmic Rayleigh scattering in amorphous solids from tensorial heterogeneous elasticity with power-law disorder
A. ZacconeUltimo
2020
Abstract
The damping or attenuation coefficient of sound waves in solids due to impurities scales with the wavevector to the fourth power, also known as Rayleigh scattering. In amorphous solids, Rayleigh scattering may be enhanced by a logarithmic factor although computer simulations offer conflicting conclusions regarding this enhancement and its microscopic origin. We present a tensorial replica field-theoretic derivation based on heterogeneous or fluctuating elasticity (HE), which shows that long-range (power-law) spatial correlations of the elastic constants, is the origin of the logarithmic enhancement to Rayleigh scattering of phonons in amorphous solids. We also consider the case of zero spatial fluctuations in the elastic constants, and of power-law decaying fluctuations in the internal stresses. Also in this case the logarithmic enhancement to the Rayleigh scattering law can be derived from the proposed tensorial HE framework.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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