Probing the non-Debye low-frequency excitations in glasses through random pinning [Physics]

We investigate the properties of the low-frequency spectrum in the density of states D(ω) of a 3D model glass former. To magnify the non-Debye sector of the spectrum, we introduce a random pinning field that freezes a finite particle fraction to break the translational invariance and shifts all of the...

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