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Despite their technological relevance, a full microscopic understanding of glasses is still lacking. This applies even more to their surfaces whose properties largely differ from that of the bulk material. Here, we experimentally…
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The dynamical behavior of a kind of models with hierarchically constrained dynamics is investigated. The models exhibit many properties resembling real structural glasses. In particular, we focus on the study of time-dependent temperature…
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Marine heat flow data, obtained with a Lister-type probe, consists of two temperature decay curves, frictional and heat pulse decay. Both follow the same physical model of a cooling cylinder. The mathematical model describing the decays is…