Low-temperature anomalies of glasses: What can we learn from computer simulations?

✍ Scribed by Andreas Heuer; Robert J. Silbey

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Volume: 219-220
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(95)00711-3

✦ Synopsis

We show that computer simulations can be used to obtain microscopic information about the nature of the soft modes which are believed to be responsible for the low-temperature anomalies. We derive the low-temperature properties from first principles. Furthermore, we obtain new information about the question as to how sensitively the anomalies depend on the microscopic structure.