Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2002-06-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
4 pages, submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
10.1073/pnas.252786999
We argue that the intrinsic glassy degrees of freedom in amorphous solids giving rise to the thermal conductivity plateau and the ``boson peak'' in the heat capacity at moderately low temperatures are directly connected to those motions giving rise to the two-level like excitations seen at still lower temperatures. These degrees of freedom can be thought of as strongly anharmonic transitions between the local minima of the glassy energy landscape that are accompanied by ripplon-like domain wall motions of the glassy mosaic structure predicted to occur at $T_g$ by the random first order transition theory. The energy spectrum of the vibrations of the mosaic depends on the glass transition temperature, the Debye frequency and the molecular length scale. The resulting spectrum reproduces the experimental low temperature Boson peak. The ``non-universality'' of the thermal conductivity plateau depends on $k_B T_g/\hbar \omega_D$ and arises from calculable interactions with the phonons.
Lubchenko Vassiliy
Wolynes Peter G.
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