Rheology of Solids

Abstract

We review our recent studies on the structural disorder in crystal, polycrystal, and glass in a Lennard-Jones binary mixture in three dimensions using molecular dynamics simulation. At a low temperature, the crossovers among these states occur as the amount of the large particles is varied. We define a disorder variable D_j (t) for each particle j in terms of local bond order parameters based on spherical harmonics (Steinhardt order parameters). Mesoscopic structural heterogeneity in glass is then visualized. In fcc crystal and polycrystal, we show that stacking faults play an important role in plasticity.