The atomic charge distribution in glasses obtained by terahertz spectroscopy

It is demonstrated that the width of the uncorrelated atomic charge distribution can be extracted from the frequency dependence of the coupling coefficient for far-infrared absorption measured experimentally by a time-domain terahertz spectroscopy technique. This value for As2S3 glass is found to be 0.12 (e). A density functional theory-based tight-binding molecular dynamics model of As2S3 glass qualitatively supports these findings.