{
  "id": "cond-mat/9901162",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-01-18T13:51:16.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-01-18T13:51:16.000Z",
  "title": "The Boson Peak in Amorphous Silica: Results from Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulations",
  "authors": [
    "Jurgen Horbach",
    "Walter Kob",
    "Kurt Binder"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages of Latex, 3 figures, uses aipproc.sty; to appear in proceedings of \"Neutrons and Numerical Methods\" Grenoble, Dec. 1998, Ed. H.G. Buttner et al",
  "journal": "p. 136 in \"Proceedings of \"Neutrons and Numerical Methods\"; Eds. M.R. Johnson et al.; AIP conference Proceedings 479, (AIP, Woodbury, 1999)",
  "doi": "10.1063/1.59458",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.dis-nn"
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate a prominent vibrational feature in amorphous silica, the so-called boson peak, by means of molecular dynamics computer simulations. The dynamic structure factor S(q,nu) in the liquid, as well as in the glass state, scales roughly with temperature, in agreement with the harmonic approximation. By varying the size of the system and the masses of silicon and oxygen we show that the excitations giving rise to the boson peak are due to the coupling to transverse acoustic modes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-01-18T13:51:16.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "molecular dynamics computer simulations",
      "boson peak",
      "amorphous silica",
      "prominent vibrational feature",
      "transverse acoustic modes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "AIP",
      "journal": "AIP Conf. Proc."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}