Structural heterogeneity and its role in determining properties of disordered solids

Abstract

We construct a new order parameter from the normal modes of vibration, based on the consideration of energy equipartition, to quantify the structural heterogeneity in disordered solids. The order parameter exhibits strong spatial correlations with low-temperature single particle dynamics and local structural entropy. To characterize the role of particles with the most defective local structures identified by the order parameter, we pin them and study how properties of disordered solids respond to the pinning. It turns out that these particles are responsible to the quasilocalized low-frequency vibration, instability, softening, and nonaffinity of disordered solids.

5 pages, 4 figures

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