Understanding the scaling of boson peak through insensitivity of elastic heterogeneity to bending rigidity in polymer glasses
arXiv:2011.04858 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/abfd51
Abstract
Amorphous materials exhibit peculiar mechanical and vibrational properties, including non-affine elastic responses and excess vibrational states, i.e., the so-called boson peak. For polymer glasses, these properties are considered to be affected by the bending rigidity of the constituent polymer chains. In our recent work [Tomoshige, et al., Sci. Rep. 9 19514 (2019)], we have revealed simple relationships between the variations of vibrational properties and the global elastic properties: the response of the boson peak scales only with that of the global shear modulus. This observation suggests that the spatial heterogeneity of the local shear modulus distribution is insensitive to changes in the bending rigidity. Here, we demonstrate the insensitivity of elastic heterogeneity by directly measuring the local shear modulus distribution. We also study transverse sound wave propagation, which is also shown to scale only with the global shear modulus. Through these analyses, we conclude that the bending rigidity does not alter the spatial heterogeneity of the local shear modulus distribution, which yields vibrational and acoustic properties that are controlled solely by the global shear modulus of a polymer glass.
arXiv comment7 pages, 6 figures, to appear in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter for Special Issue on Glasses and gels: a crossroad of molecular liquids, polymers and colloids
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