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Area of Science:

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Understanding atomic chain dynamics is crucial for material properties.
  • Disorder significantly impacts vibrational spectra and energy transport.
  • Lyapunov modes offer insights into the stability and chaos of nonlinear systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate dynamic structure factors in harmonic and anharmonic atomic chains with disorder.
  • To analyze the influence of mass disorder on harmonic chains and compare with nonlinear systems.
  • To explore the temperature dependence of static and dynamic Lyapunov structure factors.

Main Methods:

  • Calculation of dynamic structure factors for harmonic and anharmonic chains.
  • Analysis of mass disorder effects in harmonic chains.
  • Computation of Lyapunov modes and their structure factors for disordered Lennard-Jones chains.

Main Results:

  • Observed unexpected fine structure contributing to a central peak in harmonic chains with mass disorder.
  • This fine structure was also present in the spatial spectra of eigenfunctions.
  • Static and dynamic Lyapunov structure factors for the nonlinear Lennard-Jones chain exhibited opposite temperature dependencies.

Conclusions:

  • Mass disorder introduces unique features in the dynamic structure of harmonic chains.
  • Nonlinear systems display complex temperature-dependent behaviors in their Lyapunov modes.
  • The study highlights distinct responses to disorder in harmonic versus anharmonic atomic chains.