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Low-Frequency Dynamics and Its Correlation of Nanoscale Structures in Amorphous Solids

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Unlike the crystalline solids, the atomic arrangements in amorphous solids lack long-range translational and orientational order. Despite intense research activity on their structures, the details of how the atoms are packed in amorphous solids remain mysterious at present. Here, we propose a structure feature like polymers and estimate the nanoscale of short-range order (SRO) and medium-range order (MRO) in this description according to the boson peak in amorphous solids. The result supports the concepts that (a) the low-frequency local vibrations are defined by the characteristic length of nanoscale clusters and (b) a decisive scale correlation of solvent atoms, SRO and MRO is about 1:3:7 in amorphous solids.

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The authors would thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on this paper. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51871237, 51631003 and 51771217), and Xuzhou Key Research & Development Program (KC17015). We thank V. A. Khonik of State Pedagogical University, W. H. Wang and M. B. Tang of Chinese Academy of Sciences for providing the specific heat data of Pd41.25Cu41.25P17.5, Cu50Zr50 and Zr46.75Ti8.25Cu7.5Ni10Be27.5 metallic glasses, respectively.

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    Weiming Yang, Wenyu Li & Yucheng Zhao

  2. School of Physical Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, People’s Republic of China

    Qi Jiang & Haishun Liu

  3. Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, People’s Republic of China

    Juntao Huo

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Yang, W., Li, W., Jiang, Q. et al. Low-Frequency Dynamics and Its Correlation of Nanoscale Structures in Amorphous Solids. J Low Temp Phys 198, 158–166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-019-02268-6

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