Núñez Regueiro, M., P. Esquinazi, M. A. Izbizky, C. Duran, D. Castello, J. Luzuriaga, and G. Nieva. "Evidence of tunneling systems through thermal and acoustic measurements in ceramic materials." Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 153-155, no. PART 2 (1988): 1016–1017.
Abstract: We have neasured the sound velocity, internal friction, thermal conductivity and specific heat of La-based and (Y/Eu)- based ceramics. The low temperature data can be understood in terms of the Tunneling Model assuming the existence of Tunneling Systems (TS). From these measured properties we obtain values for the parameter C=P?2/?v2, where P is the density of states of TS, ? the coupling constant between phonons and TS, ? the mass density and v the sound velocity close to those obtained for amorphous and “orientational” disordered crystalline materials. Our data would indicate that the TS are intrinsic defects independent of the sample porosity.
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Rodriguez, E., J. Luzuriaga, M. Núñez Regueiro, and C. Fainstein. "Low temperature internal friction peak in high Tc superconductors." Solid State Communications 77, no. 10 (1991): 777–780.
Abstract: We measure the internal friction Q-1 in YBa2Cu3O7-x and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x samples. At temperatures near 35 K for KHz frequencies we observe an attenuation peak. In the case of YBa2Cu3O7-x, assuming a thermally activated relaxation behaviour, we are able to show that it corresponds to the same process as other peaks observed at higher frequencies. For Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x this is not the case, and the origin of the peak, found in all the measured samples, remains unknown.
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