Electric field induced memory and aging effects in pure solid N_2
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We report combined high sensitivity dielectric constant and heat capacity measurements of pure solid N_2 in the presence of a small external ac electric field in the audio frequency range. We have observed strong field induced aging and memory effects which show that field cooled samples may be prepared in a variety of metastable states leading to a free energy landscape with experimentally ``tunable'' barriers, and tunneling between these states may occur within laboratory time scales.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003302,
title = {Electric field induced memory and aging effects in pure solid N_2},
author = {S. Pilla and J. A. Hamida and K. A. Muttalib and N. S. Sullivan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003302},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures