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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 187, Issue 5-6, Pages 654-660Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-016-1686-6
Keywords
Glass; Tunneling two-level systems; Elasticity; Vapor-deposited glass
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- ERC CoG Grant ULT-NEMS [647917]
- US Office of Naval Research
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The low-temperature properties of glass are distinct from those of crystals due to the presence of poorly understood low-energy excitations. The tunneling model proposes that these are atoms tunneling between nearby equilibria, forming tunneling two-level systems (TLSs). This model is rather successful, but it does not explain the remarkably universal value of the mechanical dissipation Q(-1) near 1 K. The only known exceptions to this universality are the Q(-1) of certain thin films of amorphous silicon, carbon and germanium. Recently, it was found that Q(-1) of amorphous silicon (a-Si) films can be reduced by two orders of magnitude by increasing the temperature of the substrate during deposition. According to the tunneling model, the reduction in Q(-1) at 1 K implies a reduction in P-0 gamma(2), where P-0 is the density of TLSs and. is their coupling to phonons. In this preliminary report, we demonstrate elastic measurements of a-Si films down to 20 mK. This will allow us, in future work, to determine whether P-0 or gamma is responsible for the reduction in Q(-1) with deposition temperature.
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