Dynamics of Disordered Materials

I Introduction to Neutron Scattering.- Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons as a Tool to Study the Glassy State.- II Dynamics Around the Glass Transition.- Neutron Scattering Anomalies Near the Glass Transition Singularity.- Polymer Dynamics Near the Glass Transition.- Dielectric Relaxation Behaviour Around the Glass-Transition of Polar Polymeric Systems.- Primary Glass Tranisition in a Molecular Glass as Observed by Incoherent Neutron Scattering.- A Contribution of Neutron Scattering to a New Understanding of the Glass Transition.- ?-NMR on LiCl 7D20 in the Glassy and the Liquid State.- Dynamics of Two-Component Systems Near the Glass Transition.- Relaxation of the Incoherent Density-Density Correlation Functions of Binary Soft-Sphere Glasses and Jump Motion of Atoms Near the Glass Transition.- Yukawa Systems: Model for Colloidal Glasses.- Non-exponential Decay of Density Correlation Function in Dense Microemulsions.- Free-Volume Distribution in Organic Glasses Studied by 2H NMR of Deuterated Probes.- Scaling Properties of Fast Motions in a Globular Protein.- The Structural and Dynamical Properties of the Sol-Gel Transition.- Ordinary and Supercooled States in a Liquid Rubidium Model.- Dynamics of o-Terphenyl in Its Glassy and Supercooled Liquid State as Observed by Incoherent Neutron Scattering.- Dielectric Relaxation in Microemulsions Near the Percolation Threshold.- Structure and Dynamics of Cyclohexane in Bulk and Constrained Geometry.- Dynamic Properties of an Inorganic System Near the Glass Transition.- A Stochastic Model for Phase Transitions.- Kawasaki Dynamics in the Ising Chain.- Signatures of Critical Dynamic Instability Near the Glass Transition: A Neutron Scattering Study.- III Low Frequency Excitations.- Low Frequency Excitations in Glasses.- StructuralRelaxation in a Metallic Glass.- Low-Energy Excitations and Vibrational Modes in Amorphous Zr-Cu Alloys.- Low Frequency Excitations in Al-Ge Alloys Quenched Under High Pressure.- Opposite Extreme Structural Relaxation Behaviour in Glassformers; a Brillouin Scattering Study of B2O3 and Ca0.4K0.6(NO3)1.4.- Line Shape Analysis of Brillouin Spectra from Glassforming Liquids.- Acoustic Glass Relaxations and Mesomorphic Transitions in Polymer Liquid Crystals.- Very Low Frequency Light Scattering in Amorphous Silica.- Longitudinal and Transverse Brillouin Intensities in Glasses: Experiments and Interaction Induced Contributions.- Phonons in Glasses.- Vibrational States and Tunneling.- IV Spin Glasses and Orientational Glasses.- Critical Dynamics of the Spin Glass Transition.- Random Fields and Nonergodicity in the Orientational Glass K(CN)
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Br1?x.- Nature of the Glass Transition in (NaCN)1?x (KCN)
x.- Correlation Between Glass Behaviour and an Intrinsic Limit of Metastability: A Time Resolved Investigation.- The Effect of Orientational and Composition Disorder on the Low Temperature/Low Energy Rotational Excitations of the NH3 Groups in Calciumhexaamine Ca(NH3)6.- What Stabilizes the Orientational Glass Phase?.- Neutron Scattering Study of a Crystal with Random Competing Interactions.- Quasielastic Broadening of the Coherent Diffuse Scattering from the Orientational Glass (KBr)l?x(KCN)x.- V Fractal Dynamics.- Dynamics of Tenuous Structures.- Dynamics of Silica Networks.- Crossover in the Vibrational Density of States of Silica Aerogels.- Low Frequency Vibrations in Silica Aerogels.- Low Frequency Light Scattering in Lithium Borate Glasses; a Cross-Over from Phonons to Fractons?.- Index of Contributors.