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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 4: Glasses I (joint session with DY)
CPP 4.2: Topical Talk
Monday, March 26, 2012, 15:30–16:00, C 243
Elastic Properties of 2D amorphous solids — •Peter Keim — Universität Konstanz
Using positional data from video-microscopy of a two-dimensional colloidal system and from simulations of hard discs we determine the wave-vector-dependent normal mode spring constants in the supercooled fluid and glassy state, respectively. The emergence of rigidity and the existence of a displacement field in amorphous solids is clarified. Continuum elastic theory is used in the limit of long wavelengths to analyze the bulk and shear modulus of this amorphous system as a function of temperature. The onset of a finite static shear modulus upon cooling marks the fluid/solid transition. This provides an opportunity to determine the glass transition temperature TG in an intuitive and precise way.