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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 303-307Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2009-10531-6
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- EPSRC [GR/S54074/01]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S54074/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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We study the relation between short-time vibrational modes and long-time relaxational dynamics in a kinetically constrained lattice gas with harmonic interactions between neighbouring particles. We find a correlation between the location of the low- (high-) frequency vibrational modes and regions of high (low) propensity for motion. This is similar to what was observed in continuous force systems, but our interpretation is different: in our case relaxation is due to localised excitations which propagate through the system; these localised excitations act as background disorder for the elastic network, giving rise to anomalous vibrational modes. Our results provide an example whereby a correlation between spatially extended low-frequency modes and high-propensity regions does not imply that relaxational dynamics originates in extended soft modes but rather belies their common origin. We consider other measures of elastic heterogeneity, such as non-affine displacement fields and mode localisation lengths, and discuss implications of our results to interpretations of dynamic heterogeneity more generally.
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