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There is a current active debate on the mechanisms of freezing in model glasses. Experimental freezing temperatures, derived from susceptibilities, are often found to vary approximately linearly with the logarithm of the measuring frequency. The theoretical problem being far from settled, experiments are much in need. To be definitive, they must cover extremely broad frequency ranges. The present paper summarizes the experimental situation for a model glass,1 mixed crystals of rubidium-ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, which have allowed measurements covering an unprecedented 17 orders of magnitude in frequency.2,3 The experimental results indicate that dynamics derived from the Vogel-Fulcher (VF) law4 provide the most appropriate phenomenological description, while dynamics adapted from other current theoretical models of spin-glasses5,6 seem inadequate for this system.
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Courtens, E. (1991). Dynamical Scaling in a Model Structural Glass. In: Pynn, R., Skjeltorp, A. (eds) Scaling Phenomena in Disordered Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1402-9_20
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