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Author
E. Lerner
E. Bouchbinder
Date
8-2017
Title
Effect of instantaneous and continuous quenches on the density of vibrational modes in model glasses
Journal
Physical Review E
Volume | Issue number
96 | 2
Article number
020104(R)
Number of pages
5
Document type
Article
Faculty
Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Institute
Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

Computational studies of supercooled liquids often focus on various analyses of their "underlying inherent states" - the glassy configurations at zero temperature obtained by an infinitely fast (instantaneous) quench from equilibrium supercooled states. Similar protocols are also regularly employed in investigations of the unjamming transition at which the rigidity of decompressed soft-sphere packings is lost. Here we investigate the statistics and localization properties of low-frequency vibrational modes of glassy configurations obtained by such instantaneous quenches. We show that the density of vibrational modes grows as ωβ with β depending on the parent temperature T0 from which the glassy configurations were instantaneously quenched. For quenches from high temperature liquid states we find β≈3, whereas β appears to approach the previously observed value β=4 as T0 approaches the glass transition temperature. We discuss the consistency of our findings with the theoretical framework of the soft potential model, and contrast them with similar measurements performed on configurations obtained by continuous quenches at finite cooling rates. Our results suggest that any physical quench at rates sufficiently slower than the inverse vibrational time scale - including all physically realistic quenching rates of molecular or atomistic glasses - would result in a glass whose density of vibrational modes is universally characterized by β=4.

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English
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©2017 American Physical Society
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http://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/21232f9a-47ad-4957-bb07-e95c6787a20b
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