Hm. Carruzzo et al., NONEQUILIBRIUM DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR IN GLASSES AT LOW-TEMPERATURES - EVIDENCE FOR INTERACTING DEFECTS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 50(10), 1994, pp. 6685-6695
We find that recent low-temperature nonequilibrium dielectric experime
nts indicate that glasses have strongly interacting defects. While man
y of the features found in the experiments can be explained by the sta
ndard model of noninteracting two-level systems, we find that the freq
uency dependence cannot. Using a Monte Carlo simulation of a nearest-n
eighbor Ising spin glass, we show that interactions between defects ca
n qualitatively explain the experiments because they lead to the forma
tion of clusters and a hole in the distribution of local fields.