Fig. 2: Lossy atom phase shift distribution 1 cycle after initial identification of lossy atoms at the strain of 2.5%.
From: Ripples in the bottom of the potential energy landscape of metallic glass
It is shown that at low temperatures, the mechanical relaxation is mostly reversible with lossy atoms remaining lossy (that is with \({\delta }_{{atom}}\approx \pi /2\)). As temperature increases, the distribution more closely resembles that of the distribution of all atoms for all cooling rates at (a) 100 K/ps, (b) 1 K/ps, (c) 0.1 K/ps, and (d) 0.01 K/ps.
