Voronoi-Delaunay analysis of normal modes in a simple model glass
- 1 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 62 (5) , 3181-3189
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.62.3181
Abstract
We combine a conventional harmonic analysis of vibrations in a soft-sphere glass with a Voronoi-Delaunay geometrical analysis of the structure. “Structure potentials” (tetrahedricity, sphericity, or perfectness) are introduced to describe the shape of the local atomic configurations (Delaunay simplices) as a function of the atomic coordinates. Apart from the highest and lowest frequencies the amplitude weighted “structure potential” varies only little with frequency. The movement of atoms in soft vibrational modes causes transitions between different “perfect” realizations of local structure. As for the potential energy a dynamic matrix can be defined for the “structure potential.” Its expectation value with respect to the vibrational modes increases nearly linearly with frequency and shows a clear indication of the boson peak. The structure eigenvectors of this dynamical matrix are strongly correlated to the vibrational ones. Four subgroups of modes can be distinguished.Keywords
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