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Tunneling Systems in Amorphous and Crystalline Solids
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In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of tunneling defects on the acoustic properties of disordered solids and proposed a softpotential model for tunneling in amorphous solids.Abstract:
1. Introduction.- 2. Heat Release in Solids.- 3. Crossover to Phonon-Assisted Tunneling in Insulators and Metals.- 4. Influence of Tunneling Systems on the Acoustic Properties of Disordered Solids.- 5. Interactions Between Tunneling Defects in Amorphous Solids.- 6. Investigation of Tunneling Dynamics by Optical Hole-Burning Spectroscopy.- 7. Tunneling of H and D in Metals and Semiconductors.- 8. Microscopic View of the Low-Temperature Anomalies in Glasses.- 9. Beyond the Standard Tunneling Model: The Soft-Potential Model.- References.read more
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