Structural characteristics of positionally-disordered lattices: relation to the first sharp diffraction peak in glasses

Details Structural characteristics of positionally-disordered lattices: relation to the first sharp diffraction peak in glasses Structural characteristics of positionally-disordered lattices: relation to the first sharp diffraction peak in glasses

2004-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406248v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

v2: changes in response to referees' comments: Figure 2 made more readable, improved discussion of height of peaks in S(k), ot

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.70.134207

Positional disorder has been introduced into the atomic structure of certain crystalline lattices, and the orientationally-averaged structure factor S(k) and pair-correlation function g(r) of these disordered lattices have been studied. Analytical expressions for S(k) and g(r) for Gaussian positional disorder in 2D and 3D are confirmed with precise numerical simulations. These analytic results also have a bearing on the unsolved Gauss circle problem in mathematics. As the positional disorder increases, high-k peaks in S(k) are destroyed first, eventually leaving a single peak, that with the lowest-k value. The pair-correlation function for lattices with such high levels of positional disorder exhibits damped oscillations, with a period equal to the separation between the furthest-separated (lowest-k) lattice planes. The last surviving peak in S(k) is, for example for silicon and silica, at a wavevector nearly identical to that of the experimentally-observed first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP) in the amorphous phases of those materials. Thus, for these amorphous materials at least, the FSDP can be regarded as arising from scattering from atomic configurations equivalent to the single family of positionally-disordered local Bragg planes having the furthest separation.

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