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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.215502
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- NSF [DMR-2104136]
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The study explores the ageing dynamics in various metastable glasses under different thermomechanical conditions, revealing that external shear can create a fractal energy landscape and accelerate relaxation. This finding deviates from the classic understanding of shear-induced bias in energy landscape.
The ageing dynamics in a multiplicity of metastable glasses are investigated at various thermomechanical conditions. By using data analytics to deconvolute the integral effects of environmental factors (e.g., energy level, temperature, stress), and by directly scrutinizing the minimum energy pathways for local excitations, we demonstrate external shear would make the system's energy landscape surprisingly fractal and create an emergent low-barrier mode with highly tortuous pathways, leading to an accelerated relaxation. This finding marks a departure from the classic picture of shear-induced simple bias of energy landscape. The insights and implications of this study are also discussed.
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