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Random Nonlinear Infinite-Level-System Model for Amorphous Solid Phonon Echo and Saturation Phenomena

Other Condensed Matter 2016-04-05 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The first two successful predictions for amorphous solid experiments by tunneling-two-level-system (TTLS) was phonon echo and saturation phenomena. In this paper by generalizing TTLS to infinite-level-system model with certain randomness and nonlinearity, we prove that phonon echo is a stimulated emission process. The classical infinite-level-system (taking 0\hbar\to 0 limit) cannot find saturation effect, while quantum infinite-level-system can find it with certain nonlinearity assumed. We also prove that without randomness or nonlinearity neither phonon echo nor saturation exists in arbitrary infinite-level-system.

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@article{arxiv.1510.05538,
  title  = {Random Nonlinear Infinite-Level-System Model for Amorphous Solid Phonon Echo and Saturation Phenomena},
  author = {Di Zhou and Anthony J. Leggett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05538},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure

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