Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2011-12-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
to appear in PNAS
Scientific paper
Slow relaxation occurs in many physical and biological systems. `Creep' is an example from everyday life: when stretching a rubber band, for example, the recovery to its equilibrium length is not, as one might think, exponential: the relaxation is slow, in many cases logarithmic, and can still be observed after many hours. The form of the relaxation also depends on the duration of the stretching, the `waiting-time'. This ubiquitous phenomenon iscalled aging, and is abundant both in natural and technological applications. Here, we suggest a general mechanism for slow relaxations and aging, which predicts logarithmic relaxations, and a particular aging dependence on the waiting-time. We demonstrate the generality of the approach by comparing our predictions to experimental data on a diverse range of physical phenomena, from conductance in granular metals, to disordered insulators, and dirty semiconductors, to the low temperature dielectric properties of glasses.
Amir Ariel
Imry Yoseph
Oreg Yuval
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