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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 551-556Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00368-1
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Low-frequency dielectric measurements on plexiglass (PMMA) show that cooling and heating the sample at constant rate give a hysteretic dependence on temperature of the dielectric constant epsilon. A temporary stop of cooling produces a downward relaxation of epsilon. Two mail features are observed: i) when cooling is resumed epsilon goes back to the values obtained without the cooling stop (i.e. the low-temperature state is independent of the cooling history); ii) upon reheating epsilon keeps the memory of the aging history (Memory). The analogies and differences with Similar experiments done in spin-glasses are discussed.
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