title: Equivalence of the boson peak in glasses to the transverse acoustic van Hove singularity in crystals.
abstract: We compare the atomic dynamics of the glass to that of the relevant crystal. In the spectra of inelastic scattering, the boson peak of the glass appears higher than the transverse acoustic (TA) singularity of the crystal. However, the density of states shows that they have the same number of states. Increasing pressure causes the transformation of the boson peak of the glass towards the TA singularity of the crystal. Once corrected for the difference in the elastic medium, the boson peak matches the TA singularity in energy and height. This suggests the identical nature of the two features.
authors.affiliation: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. chumakov@esrf.fr
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