Strain interactions and the low-temperature properties of glasses
- 15 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 18 (10), 5887-5891
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.18.5887
Abstract
It is shown that the anomalous low-temperature specific heat of amorphous materials may arise from strain interactions between two-level tunneling states. The calculation relates the specific heat to the elastic constants of the glass. The result suggests a reason for widely different glasses having very similar low-temperature properties.Keywords
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