Monday, August 13, 2012

1208.2227 (Th. Bauer et al.)

Nonlinear dielectric response at the excess wing of glass-forming
liquids
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Th. Bauer, P. Lunkenheimer, S. Kastner, A. Loidl
We present nonlinear dielectric measurements of glass-forming glycerol and propylene carbonate applying electrical fields up to 671 kV/cm. The measurements extend to sufficiently high frequencies to allow for the investigation of the nonlinear behavior in the regime of the so-far mysterious excess wing, showing up in the loss spectra of many glass formers as a second power law at high frequencies. Surprisingly, we find a complete lack of nonlinear behavior in the excess wing, in marked contrast to the alpha-relaxation where, in agreement with previous reports, a strong increase of dielectric constant and loss is found.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2227

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