Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-06-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
Glasses have a large excess of low-frequency vibrational modes in comparison with continuous elastic body, the so-called Boson Peak, which appears to correlate with several crucial properties of glasses, such as transport or fragility. I review recent results showing that the Boson Peak is a necessary consequence of the weak connectivity of the solid. I explain why in assemblies repulsive spheres the boson peak shifts up to zero frequency as the pressure is lowered toward the jamming threshold, and derive the corresponding exponent. I show how these ideas capture the main low-frequency features of the vibrational spectrum of amorphous silica. These results extend arguments of Phillips on the presence of floppy modes in under-constrained covalent networks to glasses where the covalent network is rigid, or when interactions are purely radial.
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