Anti-aging in ultrastable metallic glasses
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Abstract
As ultrastable metallic glasses (UMGs) are promising candidates to solve the stability issues of conventional metallic glasses, their study is of exceptional interest. By means of x -ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we have investigated the stability of UMGs at the atomic level. We find a clear signature of ultrastability at the atomic level that results in slower relaxation dynamics of UMGs with respect to conventional (rapidly quenched) metallic glasses, and in a peculiar acceleration of the dynamics by near T g annealing. This surprising phenomenon, called here anti-aging, can be understood in the framework of the potential energy landscape. For all samples, the structural relaxation process can be described with a highly compressed shape of the density fluctuations, unaffected by thermal treatments and regardless of the ultrastability of the glass.
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This is the author final draft version of article https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.135504
CitationLüttich, M., Giordano, V., LeFloch, S., Pineda, E., Zontone, F., Luo, Y., Samwer, K., Ruta, B. Anti-aging in ultrastable metallic glasses. "Physical review letters", 30 Març 2018, vol. 120, núm. 13, p. 135504-1-135504-5.
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Publisher versionhttps://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.135504
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