Finitely coordinated models for low-temperature phases of amorphous systems

Details Finitely coordinated models for low-temperature phases of amorphous systems Finitely coordinated models for low-temperature phases of amorphous systems

2007-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703534v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

35 pages, 8 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/40/31/004

We introduce models of heterogeneous systems with finite connectivity defined on random graphs to capture finite-coordination effects on the low-temperature behavior of finite dimensional systems. Our models use a description in terms of small deviations of particle coordinates from a set of reference positions, particularly appropriate for the description of low-temperature phenomena. A Born-von-Karman type expansion with random coefficients is used to model effects of frozen heterogeneities. The key quantity appearing in the theoretical description is a full distribution of effective single-site potentials which needs to be determined self-consistently. If microscopic interactions are harmonic, the effective single-site potentials turn out to be harmonic as well, and the distribution of these single-site potentials is equivalent to a distribution of localization lengths used earlier in the description of chemical gels. For structural glasses characterized by frustration and anharmonicities in the microscopic interactions, the distribution of single-site potentials involves anharmonicities of all orders, and both single-well and double well potentials are observed, the latter with a broad spectrum of barrier heights. The appearance of glassy phases at low temperatures is marked by the appearance of asymmetries in the distribution of single-site potentials, as previously observed for fully connected systems. Double-well potentials with a broad spectrum of barrier heights and asymmetries would give rise to the well known universal glassy low temperature anomalies when quantum effects are taken into account.

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