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1/f noise and slow relaxations in glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2015-05-14 v2

Abstract

Recently we have shown that slow relaxations in the electron glass system can be understood in terms of the spectrum of a matrix describing the relaxation of the system close to a metastable state. The model focused on the electron glass system, but its generality was demonstrated on various other examples. Here, we study the noise spectrum in the same framework. We obtain a remarkable relation between the spectrum of relaxation rates λ\lambda described by the distribution function P(λ)1/λP(\lambda) \sim 1/\lambda and the 1/f1/f noise in the fluctuating occupancies of the localized electronic sites. This noise can be observed using local capacitance measurements. We confirm our analytic results using numerics, and also show how the Onsager symmetry is fulfilled in the system.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5060,
  title  = {1/f noise and slow relaxations in glasses},
  author = {Ariel Amir and Yuval Oreg and Yoseph Imry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5060},
  year   = {2015}
}