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Nonequilibrium dynamics in amorphous Si3B3N7
A Hannemann1, J C Schön, M Jansen
1Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
We present extensive numerical investigations of the structural relaxation dynamics of a realistic model of the amorphous high-temperature ceramic a-Si3B3N7, probing the mean-square displacement of the atoms, the bond survival probability, the average energy, the specific heat, and the two-point energy average. Combining the information from these different sources, we identify a transition temperature Tc approximately 2000 K below which the system is no longer ergodic and physical quantities observed over a time t(obs) show a systematic parametric dependence on the waiting time t(w), or age, elapsed after the quench. The aging dynamics "stiffens" as the system becomes older, which is similar to the behavior of highly idealized models such as Ising spin glasses and Lennard-Jones glasses.
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