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Correlations of plasticity in sheared glasses
F. Varnik, S. Mandal, V. Chikkadi, D. Denisov, P. Olsson, D. Vagberg, D. Raabe, P. Schall.
Physical Review E, 89, 1 - 6, (2014)
Abstract
In a recent paper [Mandal et al., Phys. Rev. E 88, 022129 (2013)], the nature of spatial correlations of plasticity in hard-sphere glasses was addressed both via computer simulations and in experiments. It was found that the experimentally obtained correlations obey a power law, whereas the correlations from simulations are better fitted by an exponential decay. We here provide direct evidence—via simulations of a hard-sphere glass in two dimensions (2D)—that this discrepancy is a consequence of the finite system size in the 3D simulations. By extending the study to a 2D soft disk model at zero temperature [Durian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4780 (1995)], the robustness of the power-law decay in sheared amorphous solids is underlined. Deviations from a power law occur when either reducing the packing fraction towards the supercooled regime in the case of hard spheres or changing the dissipation mechanism from contact dissipation to a mean-field-type drag in the case of soft disks.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.040301
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