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Dipole-glass concept and history-dependent phenomena in relaxors

Materials Science 2010-11-23 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The possibility to explain basic physical properties of relaxors within the concept of the dipole-glass transition is discussed. We argue that this concept provides the only consistent picture accounting of all known anomalous features of relaxors. The origin of their history-dependent properties can be naturally traced to the main paradigm of glass-state theory - the existence of numerous metastable states. Based on this paradigm phenomenological description of known history-dependent phenomena in relaxors agrees qualitatively with experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1003.0147,
  title  = {Dipole-glass concept and history-dependent phenomena in relaxors},
  author = {P. N. Timonin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0147},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures