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Evolution of Covalent Networks under Cooling: Contrasting the Rigidity Window and Jamming Scenarios

Yan, Le
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Wyart, Matthieu  
2014
Physical Review Letters

We study the evolution of structural disorder under cooling in supercooled liquids, focusing on covalent networks. We introduce a model for the energy of networks that incorporates weak noncovalent interactions. We show that at low temperature these interactions considerably affect the network topology near the rigidity transition that occurs as the coordination increases. As a result, this transition becomes mean field and does not present a line of critical points previously argued for, the "rigidity window." Vibrational modes are then not fractons but instead are similar to the anomalous modes observed in packings of particles near jamming. These results suggest an alternative interpretation for the intermediate phase observed in chalcogenides. © 2014 American Physical Society.

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research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.215504
Author(s)
Yan, Le
Wyart, Matthieu  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

113

Issue

21

Article Number

215504

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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PCSL  
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October 18, 2016
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