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Recently photochemical holeburning experiments have been carried out in organic glasses down to 0.4 K. Here we give a theoretical explanation of theT 1.3-dependence of the holewidth. It is based on the strain field coupling between impurity molecules and two-level tunneling states leading to a kind of “spectral diffusion” of the optical excitation energy.
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Hunklinger, S., Schmidt, M. An explanation of the anomalous temperature dependence of optical linewidths in glasses. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 54, 93–97 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01388059
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