Correlation Between Local Structure and Boson Peak in Metallic Glasses

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• 作者：Azkar Saeed Ahmad ; Xiangnan Zhao ; Mingxiang Xu…
• 关键词：Metallic glasses ; Boson peak ; Local structure ; Pair correlation function ; X ; ray diffraction
• 刊名：Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：186
• 期：1-2
• 页码：172-181
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Condensed Matter Physics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-7357
• 卷排序：186

文摘

We made a systematic study of the boson peak for six different Zr-based metallic glasses and found a universal correlation between average local atomic structure and boson peak. It is found that the boson peak can be decomposed into six characteristic vibratory modes, i.e., Debye’s vibratory mode and five Einstein’s vibratory modes. By using the Ioffe–Regel condition over all studied Zr-based metallic glasses, we reveal that atomic pair correlation function exactly maps on the low-temperature dynamics and the origin of the boson peak, which is the sum of vibrations of local density fluctuation domains in the glasses. In addition, it is found that the Debye’s type oscillators are the major contributors to the low-temperature specific heat capacities. This study opens a new way of understanding the relationship of the physical properties with the atomic arrangements in glasses.