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Temperature cycling during the aging of a polymer glass

L. Bellon, S. Ciliberto, C. Laroche

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9905160

Abstract

Temperature cycling is used to study of aging properties of PMMA dielectric constant. If a negative temperature cycle is applied during the aging time the relaxation dynamics is just delayed for a time equal to the cycle period. In contrast this time shifting procedure cannot be applied to positive temperature cycles . The analogies and differences with similar experiments done in other aging systems, such as spin glasses, orientational glasses and supercooled liquids, are discussed.

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