Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2009-08-15
Phys. Rev. E 81, 021301 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
15 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in 3D jammed packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy diffusivity, a spectral measure of transport that controls sound propagation and thermal conductivity. The crossover frequency between weak and strong phonon scattering is controlled by the coordination and shifts to zero as the system is decompressed towards the critical packing fraction at which rigidity is lost. Below the crossover, the diffusivity displays a power-law divergence with inverse frequency, which suggests that the vibrational modes are primarily transverse waves, weakly scattered by disorder. Above it, a large number of modes appear whose diffusivity plateaus at a nearly constant value independent of the inter-particle potential, before dropping to zero above the Anderson localization frequency. The thermal conductivity of a marginally jammed solid just above the rigidity threshold is calculated and related to the one measured experimentally at room temperature for most glasses.
Liu Andrea J.
Nagel Sidney R.
Vitelli Vincenzo
Wyart Matthieu
Xu Ning
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