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    • Solid-state physics
    • Materials science
    • Defect physics

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    • Defect relaxation significantly influences material properties like electrical conductivity.
    • Understanding relaxation modes in ionic solids is crucial for materials design.
    • Previous studies have explored defect interactions but lacked detailed mode analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze relaxation modes in trapped-defect systems within the NaCl structure.
    • To determine relaxation rates and contributions to polarizability for different defect configurations.
    • To investigate the dominance of specific relaxation modes under varying conditions.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a relaxation-mode analysis using basis vectors in occupation-probability space.
    • Formulated and solved secular equations to obtain relaxation rates and mode coefficients.
    • Applied a three-shell model with specific jump frequencies for NaCl(Mn) impurity-ion vacancy pairs.

    Main Results:

    • Identified distinct relaxation modes for single-site and dual-site trapped defects.
    • Calculations confirmed Lozovskii's findings regarding relaxation rates and polarizability contributions.
    • A single dominant relaxation mode was observed in a-c measurements, despite significant contributions from outer shells.

    Conclusions:

    • The dominant relaxation mode simplifies the interpretation of a-c dielectric measurements.
    • While multiple relaxations exist, the slowest mode typically governs the overall process.
    • Slower relaxations detected by d-c techniques may indicate alternative defect mechanisms.