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The conductivity of $\alpha$-polyvinylidene fluoride ($\alpha$-PVDF) is obtained from dielectric measurements performed in the frequency domain at several temperatures. At temperatures above the glass-transition, the conductivity can be…
We report a combined theoretical and experimental study of the spectral and polarization dependence of near resonant radiation coherently backscattered from an ultracold gas of 85Rb atoms. Measurements in an approximately 6 MHz range about…
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The explanation is presented for the temperature dependence of the fourfold intensity peak splitting found recently in diffuse scattering from the disordered Cu3Au alloy. The wavevector and temperature dependence of the self-energy is…