Amorphous solid state: A locally stable thermodynamic phase of randomly constrained systems
Amorphous solid state: A locally stable thermodynamic phase of randomly constrained systems
The question of the local stability of the (replica-symmetric) amorphous solid state is addressed for a class of systems undergoing a continuous liquid to amorphous-solid phase transition driven by the effect of random constraints. The Hessian matrix, associated with infinitesimal fluctuations around the stationary point corresponding to the amorphous solid …