Abstract
Glasses show very interesting behaviour well below the glass transition temperature. Inspite of various experimental observations, even simple quantitative explanations relating these relaxation phenomena to structural properties are absent. In this paper we have tried to point out a phenomenological approach to this problem by identifying certain parameters which we think can be used to characterize these relaxations.
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Raychaudhuri, A.K. Low temperature properties of glasses—Unsolved problems. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.) 96, 559–564 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936306
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