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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 126, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.118004
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- MICINN-Spain [PGC2018-094548-B-I00]
- FEDER-UE [PGC2018-094548-B-I00]
- Basque Government [IT-1175-19]
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By aging glassy spheres of a polymeric glass former at appropriate temperatures, it is possible to achieve a thermodynamic state corresponding to an ideal glass in a short period of time, thereby suppressing the boson peak in the vibrational properties of glasses.
The existence of an ideal glass and the resolution to the Kauzmann paradox is a long-standing open question in materials science. To address this problem, we exploit the ability of glasses with large interfacial area to access low energy states. We submit aggregates of spheres of a polymeric glass former to aging well below their glass transition temperature, T-g; and characterize their thermodynamic state by calorimetry, and the vibrational density of state (VDOS) by inelastic neutron scattering (INS). We show that, when aged at appropriate temperatures, glassy spheres attain a thermodynamic state corresponding to an ideal glass in time scales of about one day. In this state, the boson peak, underlying the deviation from the Debye level of the VDOS, is essentially suppressed. Our results are discussed in the framework of the link between the macroscopic thermodynamic state of glasses and their vibrational properties.
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