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Article Dans Une Revue Soft Matter Année : 2019

Sound attenuation in stable glasses

Lijin Wang
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Ludovic Berthier
Elijah Flenner
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Pengfei Guan
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Grzegorz Szamel

Résumé

Understanding the difference between universal low-temperature properties of amorphous and crystalline solids requires an explanation of the stronger damping of long-wavelength phonons in amorphous solids. A longstanding sound attenuation scenario, resulting from a combination of experiments, theories, and simulations, leads to a quartic scaling of sound attenuation with the wavevector, which is commonly attributed to Rayleigh scattering of the sound. Modern computer simulations offer conflicting conclusions regarding the validity of this picture. We simulate glasses with an unprecedentedly broad range of stabilities to perform the first microscopic analysis of sound damping in model glass formers across a range of experimentally relevant preparation protocols. We present a convincing evidence that quartic scaling is recovered for small wavevectors irrespective of the glass's stability. With increasing stability, the wavevector where the quartic scaling begins increases by approximately a factor of three and the sound attenuation decreases by over an order of magnitude. Our results uncover an intimate connection between glass stability and sound damping.

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hal-02290852 , version 1 (18-09-2019)

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Lijin Wang, Ludovic Berthier, Elijah Flenner, Pengfei Guan, Grzegorz Szamel. Sound attenuation in stable glasses. Soft Matter, 2019, 15, pp.7018. ⟨10.1039/c9sm01092k⟩. ⟨hal-02290852⟩
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