Low-temperature anomalies in disordered solids: a cold case of contested relics?

Amorphous solids manifest puzzling effects of mysterious degrees of freedom that give rise to a heat capacity and phonon scattering in great excess over what would be expected for a solid that has a unique vibrational ground state. Of particular conceptual importance is the apparent near universalit...

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Main Author: Vassiliy Lubchenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Advances in Physics: X
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2018.1510296