{"id":214187,"date":"2025-05-17T05:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/an-invisible-order-in-glass-shapes-vibrations-in-the-terahertz-frequency-range"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:21:46","slug":"an-invisible-order-in-glass-shapes-vibrations-in-the-terahertz-frequency-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/an-invisible-order-in-glass-shapes-vibrations-in-the-terahertz-frequency-range","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018invisible order\u2019 in glass shapes vibrations in the terahertz frequency range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-invisible-order-in-glass-shapes-vibrations-in-the-terahertz-frequency-range2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a subtle periodicity. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that this hidden periodicity\u2014referred to as \u201cinvisible order\u201d\u2014plays a critical role in determining vibrational fluctuations in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, which significantly influence the physical properties of glass.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-94454-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, glass appears to be a random network of atoms. However, X-ray and neutron beam analysis reveals a faint but consistent periodic feature known as the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a subtle periodicity. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that this hidden periodicity\u2014referred to as \u201cinvisible order\u201d\u2014plays a critical role in determining vibrational fluctuations in the terahertz (THz) frequency range, which significantly influence the physical properties of glass. The research is published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}