Finite-size effects in the nonphononic density of states in computer glasses

Abstract

The universal form of the density of nonphononic, quasilocalized vibrational modes of frequency $\omega$ in structural glasses, $\mathcal{D}(\omega )$, was predicted theoretically decades ago, but only recently revealed in numerical simulations. In particular, it has been recently established that, in generic computer glasses, $\mathcal{D}(\omega )$ increases from zero frequency as ${\omega }^4$, independent of spatial dimension and of microscopic details. However, in [E. Lerner, and E. Bouchbinder, Phys. Rev. E 96, 020104(R) (2017)] it was shown that the preparation protocol employed to create glassy samples may affect the form of their resulting $\mathcal{D}(\omega )$: glassy samples rapidly quenched from high temperature liquid states were shown to feature $\mathcal{D}(\omega )\sim {\omega }^{\beta }$ with $\beta <4$, presumably limiting the degree of universality of the ${\omega }^4$ law. Here we show that exponents $\beta <4$ are only seen in small glassy samples quenched from high-temperatue liquid states --- whose sizes are comparable to or smaller than the size of the disordered core of soft quasilocalized vibrations --- while larger glassy samples made with the same protocol feature the universal ${\omega }^4$ law. Our results demonstrate that observations of $\beta <4$ in the nonphononic density of states stem from finite-size effects, and we thus conclude that the ${\omega }^4$ law should be featured by any sufficiently large glass quenched from a melt.

arXiv comment5 pages, 3 figures. v2: data for larger systems included in fig.3

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