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Complexity of plastic instability in amorphous solids: Insights from spatiotemporal evolution of vibrational modes

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It has been accepted that low-frequency vibrational modes are causally correlated to fundamental plastic rearrangement events in amorphous solids, irrespective of the structural details. But the mode-event relationship is far from clear. In this work, we carry out case studies using atomistic simulations of a three-dimensional Cu50Zr50 model glass under athermal, quasistatic shear. We focus on the first four plastic events, and carefully trace the spatiotemporal evolution of the associated low-frequency normal modes with applied shear strain. We reveal that these low-frequency modes get highly entangled with each other, from which the critical mode emerges spontaneously to predict a shear transformation event. But the detailed emergence picture is event by event and shear-protocol dependent, even for the first plastic event. This demonstrates that the instability of a plastic event is a result of extremely complex multiple-path choice or competition, and there is a strong, elastic interaction among neighboring instability events. At last, the generality of the present findings is shown to be applicable to covalent-bonded glasses.

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    J. Yang, J. Duan, Y. J. Wang & M. Q. Jiang

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    J. Duan, Y. J. Wang & M. Q. Jiang

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Disordered, Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Supercooled Liquids to Amorphous Solids” edited by Marco Baity Jesi, Yuliang Jin, Elijah Flenner, Marisa A. Frechero, Gustavo A. Appignanesi.

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Yang, J., Duan, J., Wang, Y.J. et al. Complexity of plastic instability in amorphous solids: Insights from spatiotemporal evolution of vibrational modes. Eur. Phys. J. E 43, 56 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2020-11983-6

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