Continuum limit of the vibrational properties of amorphous solids

Abstract

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counter-intuitive because any solid material is expected to behave as a homogeneous elastic body in the continuum limit, in which vibrational modes are phonons following the Debye law. A number of phenomenological explanations have been proposed, which assume elastic heterogeneities, soft localized vibrations, and so on. Recently, the microscopic mean-field theories have been developed to predict the universal non-Debye scaling law. Considering these theoretical arguments, it is absolutely necessary to directly observe the nature of the low-frequency vibrations of amorphous solids and determine the laws that such vibrations obey. Here, we perform an extremely large-scale vibrational mode analysis of a model amorphous solid. We find that the scaling law predicted by the mean-field theory is violated at low frequency, and in the continuum limit, the vibrational modes converge to a mixture of phonon modes following the Debye law and soft localized modes following another universal non-Debye scaling law.

19 pages, 5 figures

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