Relaxation phenomena in disordered systems

✍ Scribed by F. Sciortino; P. Tartaglia

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 436 KB
• Volume: 236
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(96)00402-5

✦ Synopsis

In this article we discuss how the assumptions of self-similarity imposed on the distribution of independently relaxing modes, as well as on their amplitude and characteristic times, manifest in the global relaxation phenomena. We also review recent applications of such approach to the description of relaxation phenomena in microemulsions and molecular glasses.