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Nonexponential decay in relaxation phenomena

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A variety of considerations from different points of view including non-Markovian stochastic processes, basic quantum mechanics, and a mechanism based on condensed matter physics, all lead to the fractional exponential decay at long times in relaxation processes. Implications of this decay law and its verifiable predictions in a broad range of phenomena in condensed matter physics are pointed out.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    A. K. Rajagopal

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, 20375, Washington, D.C.

    K. L. Ngai, R. W. Rendell & S. Teitler

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Research partially supported by ONR-NRL contract N00014-82-K-2021, and supported in part by ONR under task area NR318-059.

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Rajagopal, A.K., Ngai, K.L., Rendell, R.W. et al. Nonexponential decay in relaxation phenomena. J Stat Phys 30, 285–292 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012303

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