Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Dipole Echo in Glasses with Nuclear Quadrupole Moments

Abstract

The effect of a magnetic field on the dipole echo amplitude in glasses at temperatures of about 10 mK caused by nonspherical nuclei with electric quadrupole moments has been studied theoretically. It has been shown that in this case, the two-level systems (TLS's) that determine the glass properties at low temperatures are transformed into more complicated multilevel systems. These systems have new properties as compared to usual TLS's and, in particular, exhibit oscillations of electric dipole echo amplitude in magnetic field. A general formula that describes the echo amplitude in an arbitrary split TLS has been derived with perturbation theory. Detailed analytic and numerical analysis of the formula has been performed. The theory agrees qualitatively and quantitatively well with experimental data.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure