High frequency dynamics in a monatomic glass

Abstract

The high frequency dynamics of glassy Selenium has been studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering at beamline BL35XU (SPring-8). The high quality of the data allows one to pinpoint the existence of a dispersing acoustic mode for wavevectors ($Q$) of $1.5<Q<12.5$ nm${}^{-1}$, helping to clarify a previous contradiction between experimental and numerical results. The sound velocity shows a positive dispersion, exceeding the hydrodynamic value by $\approx$ 10% at $Q<3.5$ nm${}^{-1}$. The $Q^2$ dependence of the sound attenuation $\Gamma (Q)$, reported for other glasses, is found to be the low-$Q$ limit of a more general $\Gamma (Q)\propto \Omega (Q{)}^2$ law which applies also to the higher $Q$ region, where $\Omega (Q)\propto Q$ no longer holds.

Phys. Rev. Lett. (Accepted)

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