Glassy dynamics and crystalline local order in two-dimensional amorphous silica
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| author | Dirindin, Marco Coslovich, Daniele |
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| contents | We reassess the modeling of amorphous silica bilayers as a two-dimensional classical system whose particles interact with an effective pairwise potential. We show that it is possible to reparameterize the potential developed by Roy, Heyde, and Heuer to quantitatively match the structural details of the experimental samples. We then study the glassy dynamics of the reparameterized model at low temperatures. Using appropriate cage-relative correlation functions, which suppress the effect of Mermin-Wagner fluctuations, we highlight the presence of two well-defined Arrhenius regimes separated by a narrow crossover region, which we connect to the thermodynamic anomalies and the changes in the local structure. We find that the bond-orientational order grows steadily below the crossover temperature and is associated to transient crystalline domains of nanometric size. These findings raise fundamental questions about the nature of glass structure in two dimensions and provide guidelines to interpret the experimental data. |
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| spellingShingle | Glassy dynamics and crystalline local order in two-dimensional amorphous silica Dirindin, Marco Coslovich, Daniele Statistical Mechanics Materials Science We reassess the modeling of amorphous silica bilayers as a two-dimensional classical system whose particles interact with an effective pairwise potential. We show that it is possible to reparameterize the potential developed by Roy, Heyde, and Heuer to quantitatively match the structural details of the experimental samples. We then study the glassy dynamics of the reparameterized model at low temperatures. Using appropriate cage-relative correlation functions, which suppress the effect of Mermin-Wagner fluctuations, we highlight the presence of two well-defined Arrhenius regimes separated by a narrow crossover region, which we connect to the thermodynamic anomalies and the changes in the local structure. We find that the bond-orientational order grows steadily below the crossover temperature and is associated to transient crystalline domains of nanometric size. These findings raise fundamental questions about the nature of glass structure in two dimensions and provide guidelines to interpret the experimental data. |
| title | Glassy dynamics and crystalline local order in two-dimensional amorphous silica |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10500 |