A glass anomaly in the shear modulus of solid $^4$He

Details A glass anomaly in the shear modulus of solid $^4$He A glass anomaly in the shear modulus of solid $^4$He

2010-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/1003.5968v1

Physical Review Letters 105 (2010) 045302 (4 pages)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.045302

The shear modulus of solid $^4$He exhibits an anomalous change of order 10%[1, 2] at low temperatures that is qualitatively similar to the much smaller frequency change in torsional oscillator experiments. We propose that in solid $^4$He the stiffening of the shear modulus with decreasing temperature can be described with a glass susceptibility assuming a temperature dependent relaxation time $\tau(T)$. The glass susceptibility captures the freezing out of glassy degrees of freedom below a characteristic crossover temperature $T_X$. There the dynamic response of the solid satisfies $\omega \tau(T_X) \sim 1$, thus leading to an increase in the shear modulus. Within this model we predict that the maximum change of the amplitude of the shear modulus and the height of the dissipation peak are independent of the applied frequency $\omega$. Our calculations also show a qualitative difference in behavior of the shear modulus depending on the temperature behavior of the glass relaxation time $\tau(T)$. These predictions can be tested by comparing the complex shear modulus with experiments at different frequencies and for different levels of disorder. [1] J. Day and J. Beamish, Nature 150, 853 (2007). [2] J. Day, O. Syshchenko, J. Beamish, Phys. Rev. B 79, 214524(2009).

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