Echoes from anharmonic normal modes in model glasses

Burton, Justin C.; Nagel, Sidney R.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032905

Title: Echoes from anharmonic normal modes in model glasses

Journal Article · Fri Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review E

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032905· OSTI ID:1418617

Burton, Justin C. ^[1]; Nagel, Sidney R. ^[2]

Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.

Glasses display a wide array of nonlinear acoustic phenomena at temperatures T ≲1 K. This behavior has traditionally been explained by an ensemble of weakly coupled, two-level tunneling states, a theory that is also used to describe the thermodynamic properties of glasses at low temperatures. One of the most striking acoustic signatures in this regime is the existence of phonon echoes, a feature that has been associated with two-level systems with the same formalism as spin echoes in NMR. Here we report the existence of a distinctly different type of acoustic echo in classical models of glassy materials. Our simulations consist of finite-ranged, repulsive spheres and also particles with attractive forces using Lennard-Jones interactions. We show that these echoes are due to anharmonic, weakly coupled vibrational modes and perhaps provide an alternative explanation for the phonon echoes observed in glasses at low temperatures.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-03ER46088; DMR-1420709; DMR-1455086

OSTI ID:: 1418617

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1244132

Journal Information:: Physical Review E, Vol. 93, Issue 3; ISSN 2470-0045

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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