Universality of the nonphononic vibrational spectrum across different classes of computer glasses

Abstract

It has been recently established that the low-frequency spectrum of simple computer glass models is populated by soft, quasilocalized nonphononic vibrational modes whose frequencies $\omega$ follow a gapless, universal distribution $\mathcal{D}(\omega )\sim {\omega }^4$. While this universal nonphononic spectrum has been shown to be robust to varying the glass history and spatial dimension, it has so far only been observed in simple computer glasses featuring radially-symmetric, pairwise interaction potentials. Consequently, the relevance of the universality of nonphononic spectra seen in simple computer glasses to realistic laboratory glasses remains unclear. Here we demonstrate the emergence of the universal ${\omega }^4$ nonphononic spectrum in a broad variety of realistic computer glass models, ranging from tetrahedral network glasses with three-body interactions, through molecular glasses and glassy polymers, to bulk metallic glasses (BMGs). Taken together with previous observations, our results indicate that the low-frequency nonphononic vibrational spectrum of any glassy solid quenched from a melt features the universal ${\omega }^4$ law, independently of the nature of its microscopic interactions.

arXiv comment8 pages, 4 figures. Universality is demonstrated also for a Bulk Metallic Glass model (CuZr), updated figures and references

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