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Low temperature heat capacity of a severely deformed metallic glass
J. Bünz, T. Brink, K. Tsuchija, F. Meng, G. Wilde, K. Albe.
Physical Review Letters, 112, 135501, (2014)
Abstract
The low temperature heat capacity of amorphous materials reveals a low-frequency enhancement (boson peak) of the vibrational density of states, as compared with the Debye law. By measuring the low-temperature heat capacity of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass relative to a crystalline reference state, we show that the heat capacity of the glass is strongly enhanced after severe plastic deformation by high-pressure torsion, while subsequent thermal annealing at elevated temperatures leads to a significant reduction. The detailed analysis of corresponding molecular dynamics simulations of an amorphous Zr-Cu glass shows that the change in heat capacity is primarily due to enhanced low-frequency modes within the shear band region.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.135501
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