It is now ten years since it was first convincingly shown that below 1 K the ther mal conductivity and the heat capacity of amorphous solids behave in a way which is strikingly …
The interaction of sound waves with tunneling, relaxational, and resonant vibrational states in glasses is investigated within the soft-potential model. The same bilinear coupling …
Parasitic two-level tunnelling systems originating from structural material defects affect the functionality of various microfabricated devices by acting as a source of noise. In particular …
Many features of glasses below 1 K are explicable in terms of localized tunneling levels, for which a spin-1 2 analogy exists. Here we show that spectral diffusion, resulting from …
Since the very first experiments, superconducting circuits have suffered from strong coupling to environmental noise, destroying quantum coherence and degrading performance. In state …
This article presents a review of some basic problems and results in the theory of atomic quantum diffusion, atomic tunnelling states and some related phenomena in condensed …
Amorphous solids, ie, systems which feature well-defined short-range properties but lack long-range order, constitute an important research topic in condensed matter. While their …
S Hunklinger, AK Raychaudhuri - Progress in low temperature physics, 1986 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter provides evidence that below 1 K, the thermal properties of amorphous insulating solids differ markedly from their crystalline counterparts. The specific …