论文标题
通过弹性异质性对聚合物玻璃的弯曲刚度的不敏感性了解玻色子峰的缩放
Understanding the scaling of boson peak through insensitivity of elastic heterogeneity to bending rigidity in polymer glasses
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论文摘要
无定形材料具有特殊的机械和振动特性，包括非伴随弹性响应和过多的振动状态，即所谓的玻色子峰。对于聚合物玻璃，这些特性被认为受组成部分聚合物链的弯曲刚度影响。在我们最近的工作中[Tomoshige等人，Sci。众议员9 19514（2019）]，我们揭示了振动性能变化与全局弹性特性之间的简单关系：仅与全局剪切模量的玻色子峰尺度的响应。该观察结果表明，局部剪切模量分布的空间异质性对弯曲刚度的变化不敏感。在这里，我们通过直接测量局部剪切模量分布来证明弹性异质性的不敏感性。我们还研究了横向声波传播，这也显示仅通过全局剪切模量进行扩展。通过这些分析，我们得出结论，弯曲刚度不会改变局部剪切模量分布的空间异质性，从而产生了仅由聚合物玻璃的全局剪切模量控制的振动和声学特性。
Amorphous materials exhibit peculiar mechanical and vibrational properties, including non-affine elastic responses and excess vibrational states, i.e., the so-called boson peak. For polymer glasses, these properties are considered to be affected by the bending rigidity of the constituent polymer chains. In our recent work [Tomoshige, et al., Sci. Rep. 9 19514 (2019)], we have revealed simple relationships between the variations of vibrational properties and the global elastic properties: the response of the boson peak scales only with that of the global shear modulus. This observation suggests that the spatial heterogeneity of the local shear modulus distribution is insensitive to changes in the bending rigidity. Here, we demonstrate the insensitivity of elastic heterogeneity by directly measuring the local shear modulus distribution. We also study transverse sound wave propagation, which is also shown to scale only with the global shear modulus. Through these analyses, we conclude that the bending rigidity does not alter the spatial heterogeneity of the local shear modulus distribution, which yields vibrational and acoustic properties that are controlled solely by the global shear modulus of a polymer glass.
