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Influence of inherent structure shear stress of supercooled liquids on their shear moduli

Fuereder, I. and Ilg, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-5543 (2015) Influence of inherent structure shear stress of supercooled liquids on their shear moduli. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142 (144505). ISSN 1089-7690

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1063/1.4917042

Abstract/Summary

Configurations of supercooled liquids residing in their local potential minimum (i.e. in their inherent structure, IS) were found to support a non-zero shear stress. This IS stress was attributed to the constraint to the energy minimization imposed by boundary conditions, which keep size and shape of the simulation cell fixed. In this paper we further investigate the influence of these boundary conditions on the IS stress. We investigate its importance for the computation of the low frequency shear modulus of a glass obtaining a consistent picture for the low- and high frequency shear moduli over the full temperature range. Hence, we find that the IS stress corresponds to a non-thermal contribution to the fluctuation term in the Born-Green expression. This leads to an unphysical divergence of the moduli in the low temperature limit if no proper correction for this term is applied. Furthermore, we clarify the IS stress dependence on the system size and put its origin on a more formal basis.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
ID Code:40097
Publisher:American Institute of Physics

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