Glassy Aging with Modified Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts Form
Abstract
In this report we address the question whether aging in the non equilibrium glassy state is controlled by the equilibrium alpha-relaxation process which occur at temperatures above Tg. Recently Lunkenheimer et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 055702 (2005)] proposed a model for the glassy aging data of dielectric relaxation using a modified Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) form. The aging time dependence of the relaxation time is defined by these authors through a functional relation involving the corresponding frequency but the stretching exponent is same as the alpha-relaxation stretching exponent. We present here an alternative functional form directly involving the relaxation time itself. The proposed model fits the data of Lunkenheimer et. al. perfectly with a stretching exponent different from the alpha-relaxation stretching exponent.
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@article{arxiv.0712.4193,
title = {Glassy Aging with Modified Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts Form},
author = {Bhaskar Sen Gupta and Shankar P. Das},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.4193},
year = {2007}
}
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