1. Quartic scaling of sound attenuation with frequency in vitreous silica
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Wang, P. -J., Huynh, A., Hung, T. -C., Sheu, J. -K., Lafosse, X., Lemaitre, A., Perrin, B., Rufflé, B., Vacher, R., Sun, C. -K., and Foret, M.
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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics - Abstract
Many theories predict a quartic acoustic attenuation increase at sub-THz frequencies in glassy media for the excess vibrational modes known as the boson peak anomaly. Here by introducing phase-sensitive acoustic spectroscopy techniques with a THz bandwidth, we investigate the acoustic properties of vitreous silica at 15 and 300K in the crucial but unexplored sub-THz gap region below the boson peak. Our results indicate a strong negative dispersion starting at \SI{500}{GHz} and the onset of an athermal quartic-frequency-scaling acoustic attenuation term, which emerges above all other thermal losses., Comment: 4 figures, 11 pages
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- 2023