The low-temperature properties of glasses present important differences with respect to crystalline matter. In particular, models such as the Debye model of solids, which assume the existence of an underlying regular lattice, predict that the specific heat of solids varies with the cube of temperature at low temperatures. Since the 1970s at least, it is a well-established experimental fact that the specific heat of glasses is instead just linear in T at T similar to 1 K and presents a pronounced peak when normalized by T-3, known as the boson peak. Here we present an approach which suggests that the vibrational and thermal properties of amorphous solids are affected by the random-matrix part of the vibrational spectrum. The model is also able to reproduce, for the first time, the experimentally observed inverse proportionality between the boson peak in the specific heat and the shear modulus.
Vibrational density of states and specific heat in glasses from random matrix theory / M. Baggioli, R. Milkus, A. Zaccone. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. E. - ISSN 2470-0045. - 100:6(2019 Dec 23).
Vibrational density of states and specific heat in glasses from random matrix theory
A. ZacconeUltimo
2019
Abstract
The low-temperature properties of glasses present important differences with respect to crystalline matter. In particular, models such as the Debye model of solids, which assume the existence of an underlying regular lattice, predict that the specific heat of solids varies with the cube of temperature at low temperatures. Since the 1970s at least, it is a well-established experimental fact that the specific heat of glasses is instead just linear in T at T similar to 1 K and presents a pronounced peak when normalized by T-3, known as the boson peak. Here we present an approach which suggests that the vibrational and thermal properties of amorphous solids are affected by the random-matrix part of the vibrational spectrum. The model is also able to reproduce, for the first time, the experimentally observed inverse proportionality between the boson peak in the specific heat and the shear modulus.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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