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Protocol-dependent shear modulus of amorphous solids (1512.06544v4)

Published 21 Dec 2015 in cond-mat.soft and cond-mat.dis-nn

Abstract: We investigate the linear elastic response of amorphous solids to a shear strain at zero temperature. We find that the response is characterized by at least two distinct shear moduli. The first one, $\mu_{\rm ZFC}$, is associated with the linear response of a single energy minimum. The second, $\mu_{\rm FC}$, is related to sampling, through plastic events, an ensemble of distinct energy minima. We provide examples of protocols that allow one to measure both shear moduli. In agreement with a theoretical prediction based on the exact solution in infinite spatial dimensions, the ratio $\mu_{\rm FC}/\mu_{\rm ZFC}$ is found to vanish proportionally to the square root of pressure at the jamming transition. Our results establish that amorphous solids are characterized by a rugged energy landscape, on which the infinite-dimensional solution can give useful insight.

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