Hierarchical energy barriers, hierarchical constraints, and nonexponential decays in glasses

Kumar, D. ; Shenoy, S. R. (1986) Hierarchical energy barriers, hierarchical constraints, and nonexponential decays in glasses Solid State Communications, 57 (12). pp. 927-931. ISSN 0038-1098

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Abstract

Activated hopping over hierarchical barriers in several dimensions is shown, by a combination of scaling and Haken's slaving principle, to yield both power law and Kohlrausch stretched-exponential decays. This generalization of restricted 1D results shows that barrier models are as versatile as constraint models in describing glassy relaxation, and in fact can clarify certain constraint model assumptions.

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