3 papers
cond-mat.dis-nn2025
Sound Attenuation in Glasses
Grzegorz Szamel, Elijah Flenner
Comprehending sound damping is integral to understanding the anomalous low temperature properties of glasses. Despite decades of studies, the underlying mechanism of sound damping…
cond-mat.dis-nn2025
Defects, Sound Damping, and the Boson Peak in Amorphous Solids
Elijah Flenner, Grzegorz Szamel
Two nearly universal and anomalous properties of glasses, the peak in the specific heat and plateau of the thermal conductivity, occur around the same temperature. This coincidence…
cond-mat.dis-nn2025
The Origin of Sound Damping in Amorphous Solids: Defects and Beyond
Elijah Flenner, Grzegorz Szamel
Comprehending sound damping is integral to understanding the anomalous low temperature properties of glasses. After decades of theoretical and experimental studies, Rayleigh scatte…