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Anomalously slow relaxation to equilibrium has been observed in a wide variety of disordered systems. These include spin glasses,1 ionic glasses,2 charge density waves,3 amorphous semiconductors,4 and plate glass.5 A common feature of such glassy systems is generally believed to be a complex free energy surface consisting of many metastable local minima separated by barriers spanning a wide range of energy scales. Thermal activation over these barriers introduces a broad distribution of time scales leading to anomalously slow relaxation of correlations.
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Teitel, S. (1990). Localization as a Mechanism for the Transition to Anomalous Relaxation. In: Campbell, I.A., Giovannella, C. (eds) Relaxation in Complex Systems and Related Topics. NATO ASI Series, vol 222. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2136-9_39
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