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Multiple-scattering effects on incoherent neutron scattering in glasses and viscous liquids

Joachim Wuttke

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0002363

Abstract

Incoherent neutron scattering experiments are simulated for simple dynamic models: a glass (with a smooth distribution of harmonic vibrations) and a viscous liquid (described by schematic mode-coupling equations). In most situations multiple scattering has little influence upon spectral distributions, but it completely distorts the wavenumber-dependent amplitudes. This explains an anomaly observed in recent experiments.

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