The low temperature specific heat of Sm-AI-Co ternary metallic glasses is investigated and a clear anomaly associated with the Boson peak is identified. While this anomaly depends slightly on the chemical composition,...The low temperature specific heat of Sm-AI-Co ternary metallic glasses is investigated and a clear anomaly associated with the Boson peak is identified. While this anomaly depends slightly on the chemical composition, it has no dependence on external magnetic field. To figure out the mechanism of the Boson peak, we interpret the data within various model frameworks. Unlike earlier work, our study shows that this Boson peak is mainly ascribed to an additional T2 term of the specific heat, which may originate from the quasi-two-dimensional and short-range ordered structure units possibly existing in the metallic glasses.展开更多
We report the pronounced low-temperature specific-heat Cpanomalies in the Mg_(59.5)Cu_(22.9)Ag_(6.6)Gd_(11)bulk metallic glass(BMG).The extrapolated electron’s temperature coefficientγ0Kis up to 681.8 mJ/(molGd·...We report the pronounced low-temperature specific-heat Cpanomalies in the Mg_(59.5)Cu_(22.9)Ag_(6.6)Gd_(11)bulk metallic glass(BMG).The extrapolated electron’s temperature coefficientγ0Kis up to 681.8 mJ/(molGd·K^(2))at 0 K,which is a heavy-fermion-like behavior.The low temperature specific heat indicates an enhancement of the conduction-electron effective mass m*below 7.5 K,suggesting that the Mg_(59.5)Cu_(22.9)Ag_(6.6)Gd_(11)BMG is not free-electron-like solid.The excess specific heat in the Mg-based BMG is interpreted with tunneling states and spin glass state(magnetism)which are determined by subtracting electrons’and phonons’contribution to the specific heat below 12 K.The Boson peak(BP)temperature is located at 27 K,which is much higher than the reported values of other BMGs.And,a BP height of 0.047 mJ/(mol·K^(4))is obtained due to reduced free volume during copper mold casting with a slow cooling rate.The electrical resistivity was also investigated between 2 and 300 K,which has a negative temperature coefficient of resistivity(TCR)below 35 K(Kondo temperature,TK)and a positive value of 3.9×10^(-4)/K above 35 K.There is a minimum at about 35 K for the electrical resistivity,which can be explained by the Kondo effect.For the resistivity above 35 K,it can be explained by the FaberZiman model due to the T-dependence change of structure factor.展开更多
Boson peak of glasses,a THz vibrational excess compared to Debye squared-frequency law,remains mysterious in condensed-matter physics and material science.It appears in many different kinds of glassy matters and is al...Boson peak of glasses,a THz vibrational excess compared to Debye squared-frequency law,remains mysterious in condensed-matter physics and material science.It appears in many different kinds of glassy matters and is also argued to exist in damped crystals.A consensus is that boson peak originates from the coupling of the(quasi)-localized non-phonon modes and the plane-wave-like phonon modes,but the coupling behavior is still not fully understood.In this paper,by modulating the content of localized modes and the frequencies of phonon modes,the coupling is clearly reflected in the localization and anharmonicity of low-frequency vibrational modes.The coupling enhances with increasing cooling rate and sample size.For finite sample size,phonon modes do not fully intrude into the low frequency to form a dense spectrum and they are not sufficiently coupled to the localized modes,thus there is no Debye level and boson peak is ill-defined.This suggestion remains valid in the presence of thermal motions induced by temperature,even though the anharmonicity comes into play.Our results point to the coupling of quasi-localized and phonon modes and its relation to the boson peak.展开更多
We investigate the effects of high pressure and physical aging on the boson peak and thermal expansion of a typical metallic glass. Specifically, the thermal expansion coefficient and boson peak intensity monotonicall...We investigate the effects of high pressure and physical aging on the boson peak and thermal expansion of a typical metallic glass. Specifically, the thermal expansion coefficient and boson peak intensity monotonically decrease during physical aging.With the increase of high pressure, the boson peak intensity and the thermal expansion coefficient coincidently experience an incipient decrease and then a subsequent increase. The boson peak intensity shows an approximately linear relationship with the thermal expansion coefficient. The thermal expansion can be affected by structural relaxation or rejuvenation, which can reflect the flow units variation and atomic packing of a metallic glass. Our results indicate a direct link between structural relaxation or rejuvenation and fast boson peak dynamics, providing insights into the boson peak behavior and structural heterogeneity of metallic glasses.展开更多
By means of Gibbs-Bogoliubov (GB) thermodynamic variational calculation,the thermodynamic properties of the supercooled liquid metals,such as the 3rd family elements Al,Ga and Tl and transition metal Ti were calculate...By means of Gibbs-Bogoliubov (GB) thermodynamic variational calculation,the thermodynamic properties of the supercooled liquid metals,such as the 3rd family elements Al,Ga and Tl and transition metal Ti were calculated using the hard-sphere (HS) system as reference.The values of mean atomic volume,Helmholtz free energy,internal energy and entropy as well as specific heat at constant volume,isothermal bulk modulus,thermal expan- sion coefficient and specfic heat under constant pressure were evaluated.The glass transition temperature,T_g,is easily obtained from the C_p-T plot.The glass forming ability for metal can be predicted from T_g/T_m,which is in agreement with the experimental results.展开更多
Rejuvenation of glassy structures in general is characterized by the exothermic enthalpy prior to the glass transition.In the present work,we find that this situation is not applicable to a heavily-aged Zr-based metal...Rejuvenation of glassy structures in general is characterized by the exothermic enthalpy prior to the glass transition.In the present work,we find that this situation is not applicable to a heavily-aged Zr-based metallic glass that rejuvenates by anelastic deformation before yield.Instead,its rejuvenation can be precisely captured by the low-temperature boson heat capacity peak as well as the effective enthalpy change with the glass-to-liquid transition.These results demonstrate that a structurally stable glass could rejuvenate by decreasing mechanical stability of its basin of potential energy landscape,but without changing the basin's energy level.The underlying mechanism points toward the redistribution of the atomic free volume with a constant system-averaged value.We further find that the rejuvenation limit of this glass is its steady-flow state with self-similar inherent structures at both short-and long-time scales.Our findings refresh the understanding of glass rejuvenation and suggest that the boson peak is a better probe for the structural rejuvenation of glasses.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 50601013, 10674061 and 50832002)the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB921802)
文摘The low temperature specific heat of Sm-AI-Co ternary metallic glasses is investigated and a clear anomaly associated with the Boson peak is identified. While this anomaly depends slightly on the chemical composition, it has no dependence on external magnetic field. To figure out the mechanism of the Boson peak, we interpret the data within various model frameworks. Unlike earlier work, our study shows that this Boson peak is mainly ascribed to an additional T2 term of the specific heat, which may originate from the quasi-two-dimensional and short-range ordered structure units possibly existing in the metallic glasses.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52171184,51771220,51771095)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LD19E010001)。
文摘We report the pronounced low-temperature specific-heat Cpanomalies in the Mg_(59.5)Cu_(22.9)Ag_(6.6)Gd_(11)bulk metallic glass(BMG).The extrapolated electron’s temperature coefficientγ0Kis up to 681.8 mJ/(molGd·K^(2))at 0 K,which is a heavy-fermion-like behavior.The low temperature specific heat indicates an enhancement of the conduction-electron effective mass m*below 7.5 K,suggesting that the Mg_(59.5)Cu_(22.9)Ag_(6.6)Gd_(11)BMG is not free-electron-like solid.The excess specific heat in the Mg-based BMG is interpreted with tunneling states and spin glass state(magnetism)which are determined by subtracting electrons’and phonons’contribution to the specific heat below 12 K.The Boson peak(BP)temperature is located at 27 K,which is much higher than the reported values of other BMGs.And,a BP height of 0.047 mJ/(mol·K^(4))is obtained due to reduced free volume during copper mold casting with a slow cooling rate.The electrical resistivity was also investigated between 2 and 300 K,which has a negative temperature coefficient of resistivity(TCR)below 35 K(Kondo temperature,TK)and a positive value of 3.9×10^(-4)/K above 35 K.There is a minimum at about 35 K for the electrical resistivity,which can be explained by the Kondo effect.For the resistivity above 35 K,it can be explained by the FaberZiman model due to the T-dependence change of structure factor.
基金Project supported by the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project(Grant No.12125206)the Fund from the Basic Science Center for“Multiscale Problems in Nonlinear Mechanics”(Grant No.11988102)the General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11972345)。
文摘Boson peak of glasses,a THz vibrational excess compared to Debye squared-frequency law,remains mysterious in condensed-matter physics and material science.It appears in many different kinds of glassy matters and is also argued to exist in damped crystals.A consensus is that boson peak originates from the coupling of the(quasi)-localized non-phonon modes and the plane-wave-like phonon modes,but the coupling behavior is still not fully understood.In this paper,by modulating the content of localized modes and the frequencies of phonon modes,the coupling is clearly reflected in the localization and anharmonicity of low-frequency vibrational modes.The coupling enhances with increasing cooling rate and sample size.For finite sample size,phonon modes do not fully intrude into the low frequency to form a dense spectrum and they are not sufficiently coupled to the localized modes,thus there is no Debye level and boson peak is ill-defined.This suggestion remains valid in the presence of thermal motions induced by temperature,even though the anharmonicity comes into play.Our results point to the coupling of quasi-localized and phonon modes and its relation to the boson peak.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51801083,11790291,51461165101,51801124,and51671211)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BK20181044)。
文摘We investigate the effects of high pressure and physical aging on the boson peak and thermal expansion of a typical metallic glass. Specifically, the thermal expansion coefficient and boson peak intensity monotonically decrease during physical aging.With the increase of high pressure, the boson peak intensity and the thermal expansion coefficient coincidently experience an incipient decrease and then a subsequent increase. The boson peak intensity shows an approximately linear relationship with the thermal expansion coefficient. The thermal expansion can be affected by structural relaxation or rejuvenation, which can reflect the flow units variation and atomic packing of a metallic glass. Our results indicate a direct link between structural relaxation or rejuvenation and fast boson peak dynamics, providing insights into the boson peak behavior and structural heterogeneity of metallic glasses.
文摘By means of Gibbs-Bogoliubov (GB) thermodynamic variational calculation,the thermodynamic properties of the supercooled liquid metals,such as the 3rd family elements Al,Ga and Tl and transition metal Ti were calculated using the hard-sphere (HS) system as reference.The values of mean atomic volume,Helmholtz free energy,internal energy and entropy as well as specific heat at constant volume,isothermal bulk modulus,thermal expan- sion coefficient and specfic heat under constant pressure were evaluated.The glass transition temperature,T_g,is easily obtained from the C_p-T plot.The glass forming ability for metal can be predicted from T_g/T_m,which is in agreement with the experimental results.
基金supported by the General Project(11972345)National Distinguished Youth Science Fund Project(12125206)Major Project(11790292)of National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC).
文摘Rejuvenation of glassy structures in general is characterized by the exothermic enthalpy prior to the glass transition.In the present work,we find that this situation is not applicable to a heavily-aged Zr-based metallic glass that rejuvenates by anelastic deformation before yield.Instead,its rejuvenation can be precisely captured by the low-temperature boson heat capacity peak as well as the effective enthalpy change with the glass-to-liquid transition.These results demonstrate that a structurally stable glass could rejuvenate by decreasing mechanical stability of its basin of potential energy landscape,but without changing the basin's energy level.The underlying mechanism points toward the redistribution of the atomic free volume with a constant system-averaged value.We further find that the rejuvenation limit of this glass is its steady-flow state with self-similar inherent structures at both short-and long-time scales.Our findings refresh the understanding of glass rejuvenation and suggest that the boson peak is a better probe for the structural rejuvenation of glasses.
