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Assessing the Utility of Structure in Amorphous Materials

Soft Condensed Matter 2020-04-10 v2

Abstract

This paper presents a set of general strategies for the analysis of structure in amorphous materials and a general approach to assessing the utility of a selected structural description. Measures of structural diversity and utility are defined and applied to two model glass forming binary atomic alloys. In addition, a new measure of incipient crystal-like organization is introduced, suitable for cases where the stable crystal is a compound structure.

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@article{arxiv.1809.08589,
  title  = {Assessing the Utility of Structure in Amorphous Materials},
  author = {Dan Wei and Jie Yang and Min-Qiang Jiang and Lan-Hong Dai and Yun-Jiang Wang and Jeppe Dyre and Ian Douglass and Peter Harrowell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08589},
  year   = {2020}
}
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