Further testing the validity of generalized heterogeneous-elasticity theory for low-frequency excitations in structural glasses

Abstract

We summarize the salient features of our theory of non-phononic vibrational excitations in glasses [W. Schirmacher et al., Nature Comm. 15, 3107 (2024)]. Next, we provide further evidence of the non-universality of the ${\omega }^4$ scaling of the non-phononic vibrational density of states (DoS), and the existence of an important class of non-phononic excitations in glasses, which we call defect states. These modes are induced by frozen-in stresses and can be classified as quasi-localized. Our results suggest that the commonly observed low-frequency ${\omega }^4$ scaling of the non-phononic vibrational density of states is highly dependent on technical aspects of the molecular dynamics simulations employed to compute the DoS.

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