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Universal dielectric loss in amorphous solids from simultaneous bias and microwave field

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2015-06-05 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We derive the ac dielectric loss in glasses due to resonant processes created by two-level systems and a swept electric field bias. It is shown that at sufficiently large ac fields and bias sweep rates the nonequilibrium loss tangent created by the two fields approaches a universal maximum determined by the bare linear dielectric permittivity. In addition this nonequilibrium loss tangent is derived for a range of bias sweep rates and ac amplitudes and show that the loss tangent creates a predicted loss function that can be understood in a Landau-Zener theory and which can be used to extract the TLS density, dipole moment, and relaxation rate.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4982,
  title  = {Universal dielectric loss in amorphous solids from simultaneous bias and microwave field},
  author = {Alexander L. Burin and Moe S. Khalil and Kevin D. Osborn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4982},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in Physical Review Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures