Glassy anomalies in the low-temperature thermal properties of a minimally disordered crystalline solid
arXiv:1712.00035 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.215506
Abstract
The low-temperature thermal and transport properties of an unusual kind of crystal exhibiting minimal molecular positional and tilting disorder have been measured. The material, namely, low-dimensional, highly anisotropic pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB) has a layered structure of rhombohedral parallel planes in which the molecules execute large-amplitude in-plane as well as concurrent out-of-plane librational motions. Our study reveals that low-temperature glassy anomalies can be found in a system with minimal disorder due to the freezing of (mostly in-plane) reorientational jumps of molecules between equivalent crystallographic positions with partial site occupation. Our findings will pave the way to a deeper understanding of the origin of above-mentioned universal glassy properties at low temperature.
arXiv comment12 pages, 4 figures
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