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Third order susceptibilities in supercooled liquids and the "box model" theory versus experiments
1IMPMC, Université P. et M. Curie et CNRS-UMR 7590, Paris, France.
Abstract:
We give here the exact expression of the time dependent third order polarization predicted by the "box model" when a supercooled liquid is permanently subjected since time t = 0 to a strong electric field E(t) = E(0) sin(ωt), Dielectric Hole Burning experiment. We derive different forms of the time dependent susceptibilities, both at frequencies ω and 3ω, and examine particularly one of them. We also show that its susceptibility at ω should exhibit, at short times, presently undetected oscillations at frequency 2ω that are a signature of the "box model." We finally compare, for a large frequency range, the ω and 3ω time independent susceptibilities with the corresponding measurements on glycerol at 204.7 K. The agreement is good at frequency ω but, as already shown in Ladieu et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 134, 194507 (2011)], it is not the case at 3ω.
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