Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-01-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
26 pages incl. 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1897695
Dynamic Kerr effect measurements provide a simple realization of a nonlinear experiment. We propose a field-off experiment where an electric field of one or several sinusoidal cycles is applied to a sample in thermal equilibrium. Afterwards, the evolution of the polarizability is measured. If such an experiment is performed in the Terahertz-range it might provide valuable information about the low-frequency dynamics in disordered systems. We treat these dynamics in terms of a Brownian oscillator model and calculate the Kerr effect response. It is shown that frequency-selective behaviour can be expected. In the interesting case of underdamped vibrational motion we find that the frequency-dependence of the phonon-damping can be determined from the experiment. Also the behaviour of overdamped relaxational modes is discussed. For typical glassy materials we estimate the magnitude of all relevant quantities, which we believe to be helpful in experimental realizations.
Diezemann Gregor
Haeberle Uli
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