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The Dynamics of Supercooled Silica: Acoustic modes and Boson peak

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Using molecular dynamics computer simulations we investigate the dynamics of supercooled silica in the frequency range 0.5-20~THz and the wave-vector range 0.13-1.1\AA^{-1}. We find that for small wave-vectors the dispersion relations are in very good agreement with the ones found in experiments and that the frequency at which the boson-peak is observed shows a maximum at around 0.39\AA^{-1}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9710012,
  title  = {The Dynamics of Supercooled Silica: Acoustic modes and Boson peak},
  author = {Juergen Horbach and Walter Kob and Kurt Binder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9710012},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages of RevTex, 3 figures