Abstract
Amorphous materials display dynamic properties on many time scales from picoseconds to millions of years and – depending on the time scale of observation – may appear solid-like or liquid-like or something in between. Measuring this enormous span in time scales is a monumental challenge for experimentalists, and often several techniques are involved in the attempt. Here, a pedestrian introduction to the topic is given and a personal view of the current status of experimental achievements, focusing on the possible generic relaxation shape and a model for relaxation time that connects short-time elastic properties to the long-time viscous flow.
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Hecksher, T. (2023). Multiple Time Scales in Amorphous Materials. In: Booß-Bavnbek, B., Hesselbjerg Christensen, J., Richardson, K., Vallès Codina, O. (eds) Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems. Mathematics Online First Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/16618_2023_61
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