Scaling Theory for Steady State Plastic Flows in Amorphous Solids

Details Scaling Theory for Steady State Plastic Flows in Amorphous Solids Scaling Theory for Steady State Plastic Flows in Amorphous Solids

2009-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3319v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

9 pages, 9 figures

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Strongly correlated amorphous solids are a class of glass-formers whose inter-particle potential admits an approximate inverse power-law form in a relevant range of inter-particle distances. We study the steady-state plastic flow of such systems, firstly in the athermal, quasi-static limit, and secondly at finite temperatures and strain rates. In all cases we demonstrate the usefulness of scaling concepts to reduce the data to universal scaling functions where the scaling exponents are determined a-priori from the inter-particle potential. In particular we show that the steady plastic flow at finite temperatures with efficient heat extraction is uniquely characterized by two scaled variables; equivalently, the steady state displays an equation of state that relates one scaled variable to the other two. We discuss the range of applicability of the scaling theory, and the connection to density scaling in supercooled liquid dynamics. We explain that the description of transient states calls for additional state variables whose identity is still far from obvious.

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