2000/03/17 by S. Pilla, J. A. Hamida, Pilla, S. +5
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Nuclear Physics and Applications #cond-mat.dis-nn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0003302
4 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2000/03/17 · openalex publication_date 2000/03/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report combined high sensitivity dielectric constant and heat capacity measurements of pure solid N2 in the presence of a small external ac electric field in the audio frequency range. We have observed strong field induced aging and memory effects which show that field cooled samples may be prepared in a variety of metastable states leading to a free energy landscape with experimentally ``tunable'' barriers, and tunneling between these states may occur within laboratory time scales.