We explore new routes for characterizing the Debye-like and α relaxation in 2-ethyl-1-hexanol (2E1H) monoalcohol by using low frequency dielectric techniques including thermally stimulated depolarization current (TSDC) techniques and isothermal depolarization current methods. In this way, we have improved the resolution of the overlapped processes making it possible the analysis of the data in ...

The Yale stellar evolution code has been modified to use the OPAL equation of state tables (Rogers 1994). Stellar models and isochrones were constructed for low metallicity systems (−2.8 ≤ [Fe/H] ≤ −0.6). Above M ∼ 0.7M⊙ , the isochrones are very similar to those which are constructed using an equation of state which includes the analytical Debye-Hückel correction at high temperatures. The abso...

The Debye equation for polymer coils describes scattering from a polymer chain that displays Gaussian statistics. Such a chain is a mass fractal of dimension 2 as evidenced by a power-law decay o f 2 in the scattering at intermediate q. At low q, near q ~_ 2rc/Rg, the Debye equation describes an exponential decay. For polymer chains that are swollen or slightly collapsed, such as is due to good...

Phonon exchange is the usual cause of decoherence in atom-surface scattering. By including quantum effects in the treatment of Debye-Waller scattering, we show that phonon exchange becomes ineffective when the relevant phonon frequencies are high. The result explains the surprising observation of strong elastic scattering of Ne from a Cu(100) surface nanotextured with a c(2 × 2) Li adsorbate st...

Coulomb corrections to the equation of state of degenerate matter are usually described by Debye-Hückel theory; however, recent studies have considered modifications of thermodynamic quantities which are caused by the interactions of charged particles beyond the Debye-Hückel approximation. Based on the weakly-coupled plasma limit, the formulae for the physical properties of non-ideal effects on...

The low-frequency vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of amorphous solids are markedly different from those of crystalline solids. This situation is counterintuitive because all solid materials are expected to behave as a homogeneous elastic body in the continuum limit, in which vibrational modes are phonons that follow the Debye law. A number of phenomenological explanations for...