Shear moduli of two dimensional binary glasses

2012

The shear moduli of two-component glasses in two dimensions are studied within mode coupling theory. Varying the concentration, strong mixing effects are observed along the glass transition lines for two interaction potentials. Nonoverlapping disks with size ratios between 0.3 and 0.9, and point particles interacting with (magnetic) dipoles of strength ratio between 0.1 and 0.6 are considered. Equilibrium structure factors (partially obtained from Monte Carlo simulations) and glass form factors, and perturbative calculations show that a softening of the elastic shear constant of glass upon adding another component arises from a dilution effect of the majority component. For very disparate m…