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    Supercooled Liquid Dynamics Studied via Shear-Mechanical Spectroscopy

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    We report dynamical shear-modulus measurements for five glass-forming liquids (pentaphenyl trimethyl trisiloxane, diethyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, 1,2-propanediol, and m-touluidine). The shear-mechanical spectra are obtained by the piezoelectric shear-modulus gauge (PSG) method. This technique allows one to measure the shear modulus (105−101010^{5} -10^{10} Pa) of the liquid within a frequency range from 1 mHz to 10 kHz. We analyze the frequency-dependent response functions to investigate whether time-temperature superposition (TTS) is obeyed. We also study the shear-modulus loss-peak position and its high-frequency part. It has been suggested that when TTS applies, the high-frequency side of the imaginary part of the dielectric response decreases like a power law of the frequency with an exponent -1/2. This conjecture is analyzed on the basis of the shear mechanical data. We find that TTS is obeyed for pentaphenyl trimethyl trisiloxane and in 1,2-propanediol while in the remaining liquids evidence of a mechanical β\beta process is found. Although the the high-frequency power law behavior ω−α\omega^{-\alpha} of the shear-loss may approach a limiting value of α=0.5\alpha=0.5 when lowering the temperature, we find that the exponent lies systematically above this value (around 0.4). For the two liquids without beta relaxation (pentaphenyl trimethyl trisiloxane and 1,2-propanediol) we also test the shoving model prediction, according to which the the relaxation-time activation energy is proportional to the instantaneous shear modulus. We find that the data are well described by this model.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

    Unified formalism for excess current noise in random walk models

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    A model for the generic alpha relaxation of viscous liquids

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    Dielectric measurements on molecular liquids just above the glass transition indicate that alpha relaxation is characterized by a generic high-frequency loss varying as ω−1/2\omega^{-1/2}, whereas deviations from this come from one or more low-lying beta processes [Olsen et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86} (2001) 1271]. Assuming that long-wavelength fluctuations dominate the dynamics, a model for the dielectric alpha relaxation based on the simplest coupling between the density and dipole density fields is proposed here. The model, which is solved in second order perturbation theory in the Gaussian approximation, reproduces the generic features of alpha relaxation

    A maxium entropy ansatz for nonlinear response theory

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    On the Physics of A.C. Hopping Conductivity

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    A simple Model of AC Hopping Conductivity in disordered solids

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    Five requirements for an approximate nonlinear response theory

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    On the mechanism of glass ionic conductivity

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    A phenomenological model for the Meyer-Neldel rule

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    The frequency dependence of the specific heat of the glass reansition

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