Simulation of a reproducible model of metallic glasses by hardsphere relaxation

Abstract

The authors show that a numerical calculation to account for the structure of amorphous metallic materials needs a careful definition of the parameters used: radial distribution function, density, mean energy per atom. As far as such parameters are considered to be characteristic of the amorphous structure, they establish a reproducible model does exist, obtained by relaxation, in a Lennard-Jones potential, of different hard-sphere packings.