Unified study of viscoelasticity and sound damping in hard and soft amorphous solids
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DOI: 10.1038/s42005-025-01933-5
Abstract: Amorphous solids are diverse materials that take on various forms such as structural glasses, granular materials, foams, emulsions, and biological systems. Recent research has made significant progress in understanding non-phonon vibrational modes universally present in… read more here.
Keywords: vibrational modes; viscoelasticity sound; structural glasses; foams emulsions ... See more keywords
Disordered Crystals Reveal Soft Quasilocalized Glassy Excitations.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.095501
Abstract: Structural glasses formed by quenching a melt are known to host a population of low-energy quasilocalized (nonphononic) excitations whose frequencies ω follow a universal ∼ω^{4} distribution as ω→0, independently of the glass formation history, the… read more here.
Keywords: crystals reveal; structural glasses; nonphononic excitations; excitations disordered ... See more keywords