Crossover from localized to cascade relaxations in metallic glasses

Fan, Yue; Iwashita, Takuya; Egami, Takeshi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.045501

Title: Crossover from localized to cascade relaxations in metallic glasses

Journal Article · Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.045501· OSTI ID:1207060

Fan, Yue ^[1]; Iwashita, Takuya ^[2]; Egami, Takeshi ^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Thermally activated deformation is investigated in two metallic glass systems with different cooling histories. By probing the atomic displacements and stress changes on the potential energy landscape, two deformation modes, a localized process and cascade process, have observed. The localized deformation involves fewer than 30 atoms and appears in both systems, and its size is invariant with cooling history. However, the cascade deformation is more frequently observed in the fast quenched system than in the slowly quenched system. As a result, the origin of the cascade process in the fast quenched system is attributed to the higher density of local minima on the underlying potential energy landscape.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1207060

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1198711

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 4; ISSN 0031-9007

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