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We construct a bridge between the standard diffusion-to-traps mathematical model of stretched exponential relaxation and the modern experimental database on both electronic and structural relaxation.
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This paper is based on a presentation given at the 71st Statistical Mechanics meeting, May 1994.
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Phillips, J.C. Kohlrausch explained: The solution to a problem that is 150 years old. J Stat Phys 77, 945–947 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179472
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