Are the calorimetric and elastic Debye temperatures of glasses really different?

Details Are the calorimetric and elastic Debye temperatures of glasses really different? Are the calorimetric and elastic Debye temperatures of glasses really different?

2004-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405055v1

Philosophical Magazine 84, Nos. 13-16 (2004) 1313-1321

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

paper presented at the 9th International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Andalo-Molveno (Trento), Italy, 10-13 March 2003

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Below 1 K, the specific heat Cp of glasses depends approximately linearly on temperature T, in contrast with the cubic dependence observed in crystals, and which is well understood in terms of the Debye theory. That linear contribution has been ascribed to the existence of two-level systems as postulated by the Tunnelling Model. Therefore, a least-squares linear fit Cp = C_1 T + C_3 T^3 has been traditionally used to determine the specific-heat coefficients, though systematically providing calorimetric cubic coefficients exceeding the elastic coefficients obtained from sound-velocity measurements, that is C_3 > C_Debye. Nevertheless, Cp still deviates from the expected C_Debye proportional to T^3 dependence above 1 K, presenting a broad maximum in Cp/ T^3 which originates from the so-called boson peak, a maximum in the vibrational density of states g(f)/f^2 at frequencies around 1 THz. In this work, it is shown that the apparent contradiction between calorimetric and elastic Debye temperatures long observed in glasses is due to the neglect of the low-energy tail of the boson peak (which contribute as Cp proportional to T^5, following the Soft-Potential Model). If one hence makes a quadratic fit Cp = C_1 T + C_3 T^3 + C_5 T^5 in the physically-meaningful temperature range, an agreement C_3 = C_Debye is found within experimental error for several studied glasses.

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