MOLECULAR GLASSES: NMR AND DIELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS
We review the properties of simple diatomic molecular glasses as explored by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques and measurements of the dielectric susceptibility. We focus on the behavior of classical molecular rotors formed by solid N2—Ar mixtures and discuss the time dependent behavior in terms of replica symmetry breaking theories.
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We review the properties of simple diatomic molecular glasses as explored by nuclear magnetic
resonance techniques and measurements of the dielectric susceptibility. <...> We focus on the
behavior of classical molecular rotors formed by solid N2—Ar mixtures and discuss the time
dependent behavior in terms of replica symmetry breaking theories. <...> Of all the different types of glasses: fragile glasses [ 1 ], spin glasses
[ 2 ], orientational glasses [ 3—6], and quadrupolar glasses [ 7, 8 ], the simple molecular glasses [ 9 ]
provide a particularly straightforward case where the characteristic glass features of frustration and
disorder can be formulated clearly and realized experimentally without ambiguity. <...> In this review we will
discuss the properties of molecular glasses formed by solid mixtures of diatomic molecules and
isoelectronic diluents, and in particular solid ortho-para H2 and solid N2—Ar alloys and analyze the
characteristic hysteresis in terms of a generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem introduced by Cugliandolo
and Kurchan [ 10 ]. <...> Long-range orientational ordering of the molecular axes of pure diatomic molecular solids occur
in several cases — ortho-H2, N2, O2 … at low temperatures. <...> Note that for hydrogen the orbital angular
momentum J is a good quantum number with J = 1 for ortho-H2 molecules at low temperatures and
J = 0 for spherical para-H2 molecules. <...> Ortho-H2 and N2 molecules possess an electric quadrupole
moment as well as an interatomic axis both of which are free to fluctuate with respect to the molecules
fixed center of mass in the lattice structure at high temperatures. <...> The frustration for the interacting quadrupoles in the f.c.c. structure is geometrical in nature and
arises because of the anisotropy of the quadrupole-quadrupole interactions. <...> Illustration of a quadrupolar glass
by ellipsoids of different shapes and sizes
with respect to the alignment axes Wi. <...> For solid-ortho-para hydrogen mixtures the critical concentration is 55 % and for solid N2—Ar
mixtures it is 77 %. <...> Fig. 2 shows the phase diagram for the orientational ordering in solid ortho-para
H2 mixtures. <...> Below the critical concentration one does not observe long range order but only local ordering
in the random electrical fields produced by the surrounding molecules. <...> On cooling samples in
this low concentration region NMR studies observed a fairly rapid freezing of both the molecular orientations
and also the quadrupole moments <...>
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