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Structure, Stresses and Local Dynamics in Glasses
The interrelations between short range structural and elastic aspects in
glasses and glass forming liquids pose important and yet unresolved questions.
In this paper these relations are analyzed for mono-atomic glasses and stressed
liquids with a short range repulsive-attractive pair potentials. Strong
variations of the local pressure are found even in a zero temperature glass,
whereas the largest values of pressure are the same in both glasses and
liquids. The coordination number z(J) and the effective first peak radius
depend on the local pressures J's. A linear relation was found between
components of site stress tensor and the local elastic constants. A linear
relation was also found between the trace of the squares of the local
frequencies and the local pressures. Those relations hold for glasses at zero
temperature and for liquids. We explain this by a relation between the
structure and the potential terms. A structural similarity between liquids and
solids is manifested by similar dependencies of the coordination number on the
pressures.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure