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| Preface | |
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| Fundamental Properties of Glasses | |
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| General Description of Glasses and Glass Transition | |
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| Metastability and disorder. Types of glasses | |
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| Qualitative description of glass (liquid-to-glass) transition | |
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| Kinetic and thermodynamic properties | |
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| Slow relaxation processes | |
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| Models of Glassy (Topologically Disordered) Structures | |
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| Characteristics of glassy structures | |
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| Homogeneous (ideal) models | |
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| Inhomogeneous (cluster) models | |
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| Some Theoretical Models of Glass Transition | |
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| Vogel-Fulcher relation and "entropy crisis" | |
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| Role of configurational entropy, free-volume effects and "defects" diffusion | |
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| Mode-coupling model: Dynamic liquid-glass transition | |
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| Kohlrausch-William-Watt (KWW) Relaxation | |
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| General features of slow relaxation processes | |
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| Parallel-diffusion relaxation models | |
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| Correlated, hierarchically constrained, relaxation models | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Anomalous Low-Energy Dynamics of Glasses | |
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| Origin of Anomalous Low-Energy Properties of Glasses | |
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| Experimental Background for Anomalous Low-Energy Atomic Dynamics | |
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| Very low temperatures and frequencies | |
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| Moderately low temperatures and frequencies | |
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| Soft-Mode Model of Low-Energy Atomic Dynamics | |
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| Atomic soft modes and related potentials | |
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| Probability distribution densities | |
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| Low-energy excitations: Density of states and concentration | |
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| Interaction of soft-mode excitations with acoustic phonons | |
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| Soft-Mode Excitations of Very Low and "Intermediate" Energies | |
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| Soft-mode tunneling states (independent two-level systems) | |
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| Soft-mode excitations of "intermediate" energies | |
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| Tunneling States as Very Low Energy Limit Case | |
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| Standard tunneling model: Independent two-level systems | |
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| Advanced tunneling model: Interacting two-level systems | |
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| Mean-field approximation: "Spectral diffusion" | |
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| Many-body effects: Collective excitations | |
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| Soft-Mode Excitations of Moderately-Low Energies (Boson Peak) | |
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| Ioffe-Regel crossover for acoustic phonons as origin of boson peak | |
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| Independent soft-mode vibrational excitations | |
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| Total vibrational density of independent soft-mode states | |
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| Generalization for interacting harmonic excitations | |
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| Total vibrational density of states: dynamic properties | |
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| Width (attenuation) of acoustic phonons | |
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| Thermal vibrational properties of glasses | |
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| On Universal and Non-Universal Dynamic Properties of Glasses | |
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| Very low temperatures and frequencies | |
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| On universality of basic distributions in ATM | |
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| On universality of soft-mode distribution in SMM | |
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| Moderately low temperatures and frequencies | |
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| Other Models for Glasses with High Frequency Sound | |
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| Theoretical mode-coupling model | |
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| Theoretical random-matrix model | |
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| Comparison with the soft-mode model | |
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| Recent Models for Glasses with No High-Frequency Sound | |
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| Boson peak: Ioffe-Regel crossover at elastic acoustic scattering | |
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| Dynamic and thermal anomalies at elastic acoustic scattering | |
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| Boson peak due to spatially random springs constants | |
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| Nakayama model: Boson peak vs strongly localised modes | |
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| Anomalous Electron Properties of Semiconducting Glasses | |
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| Basic experimental data | |
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| Negativc-U centres: Anderson model | |
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| Street-Mott and Kastner-Adler-Fritzsche models | |
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| Qualitative analysis of negative-U centres | |
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| Soft-Mode Model of Localized Electron States in the Glasses | |
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| General considerations | |
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| Model of negative-U centres: Basic relations and approximations | |
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| Adiabatic potentials and electron energy | |
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| Basic features of self-trapped states and negative-U centres | |
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| Density of states and thermal equilibrium properties | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Additional Manifestations of Soft Modes in Glasses | |
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| Negative-U centres model of photostructural changes in semiconducting glasses | |
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| Gap-light frequency dependence | |
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| Temperature dependence | |
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| Summary, Conclusions and Problems | |
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| Convolution of Soft-Mode Vibrational DOS and Transformation Kernel in the DOS of BP and HFS Excitations | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |