Vibrational spectrum of topologically disordered systems

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Aug 20;87(8):085502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.085502. Epub 2001 Aug 2.

Abstract

The topological nature of the disorder of glasses and supercooled liquids strongly affects their high-frequency dynamics. In order to understand its main features, we analytically studied a simple topologically disordered model, where the particles oscillate around randomly distributed centers, interacting through a generic pair potential. We present results of a resummation of the perturbative expansion in the inverse particle density for the dynamic structure factor and density of states. This gives accurate results for the range of densities found in real systems.