Study of the dynamic structure factor of strong glasses |
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Authors: | S. Falconi P. Benassi V. Mazzacurati M. Nardone M. Sampoli |
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Affiliation: | a Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma TRE, Via della Vasca Navale 84, Rome 00146, Italy b Unita’ dell’Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy c Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di L’Aquila, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy d Dipartimento di Energetica, Università di Firenze, I-50139 Firenze, Italy |
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Abstract: | The dynamic structure factors (DSFs) of several strong glasses (SF6, SF10, BK7, SUPRASIL) measured by Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy are reported. Spectra have been collected, at and above room temperature, at two scattering angles, θ=90° and θ=180° corresponding to exchanged wavevector q values ranging from 0.0256 to 0.0448 nm−1. In particular we find that the isotropic spectral lineshapes are in all cases well described by the simple hydrodynamic theory of an amorphous solid. The width of the Brillouin peaks are found to be consistent with the predicted q2 dependence at both investigated temperatures. This damping is however found to account only partially for the strong asymmetry of the Brillouin line clearly visible on a logarithmic intensity scale. As a matter of fact there is an excess intensity in the very low frequency plateau underlying the central component. The height of this plateau and hence the entire lineshape is well reproduced if a relaxation process is taken into account in the hydrodynamic equations. Owing to the intense elastic scattering we are able to determine unambiguously only the ratio between amplitude and characteristic time of this process which quantifies the sound dispersion to be of the order of a few percent in all samples. The temperature dependence of the parameters indicates that this relaxation cannot be attributed to thermally activated relaxation phenomena. These general findings favorably compare with molecular dynamics simulation results on similar systems. |
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Keywords: | D280 L130 B165 S440 |
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