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Nature Materials 7, 842 - 843 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2311
Glasses: When disorder helps
Giancarlo Ruocco1
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Giancarlo Ruocco is in the Physics Department at the 'Sapienza', University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy, and in the INFM-CNR Research Centre on Soft Matter, 00185 Rome, Italy.
e-mail: giancarlo.ruocco@roma1.infn.it
Abstract
Amorphous solids show intriguing universal behaviour whose origins often remain poorly understood. One of these features, the boson peak, is now shown to be directly linked to transverse vibrations.
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