Unraveling strongly entropic effect on beta-relaxation in metallic glass: Insights from enhanced atomistic samplings over experimentally relevant timescales

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العنوان: Unraveling strongly entropic effect on beta-relaxation in metallic glass: Insights from enhanced atomistic samplings over experimentally relevant timescales
المؤلفون: Yang, Yi-Bo, Yang, Qun, Wei, Dan, Dai, Lan-Hong, Yu, Hai-Bin, Wang, Yun-Jiang
بيانات النشر: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: IMECH-IR (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) / 中国科学院力学研究所机构知识库
مصطلحات موضوعية: ENERGY LANDSCAPE, SECONDARY RELAXATIONS, MECHANICAL-BEHAVIOR, SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS, DEFORMATION, DYNAMICS, PLASTICITY, SIGNATURES, DIFFUSION, Materials Science, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Applied, Condensed Matter
الوصف: The Johari-Goldstein secondary (beta) relaxation is an intrinsic feature of glasses, which is crucial to many properties of disordered materials. One puzzling feature of beta-relaxation is its wide relaxation peak, which could imply a critical role of entropy. Here we quantify the activation entropy related to the beta-relaxation in metallic glass via well-tempered metadynamics simulations. The activation free energy of the beta-relaxation drastically decreases with increasing temperature, indicating a strongly entropic effect that may contribute a multiplication prefactor up to several orders of magnitude to the frequency. We further argue the entropic effect by linear extrapolation of the temperature-dependent activation free energy to 0 K, which gives rise to activation energy, in agreement with the barrier spectrum explored by the activation-relaxation technique. The entropic effect signifies the multiplicity of activation pathways which agrees with the experimentally found wide frequency domain of the beta-relaxation.
نوع الوثيقة: report
اللغة: English
Relation: PHYSICAL REVIEW B; http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/85524
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.174103
الاتاحة: http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/85524
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.174103
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.C66F7312
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.174103