Spin relaxation in disordered media

Energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron liquid.

Energy relaxation is studied in the spin-polarized disordered electron systems in the diffusive regime. We derive a quantum kinetic equation in which the kernel of the electron-electron collision integral explicitly depends on the electron magnetization. As a consequence, the inelastic scattering rate has a nonmonotonic dependence on the spin polarization of the system.

Anomalous diffusion coefficient in disordered media from NMR relaxation

Application of fractional calculus to the description of anomalous diffusion and relaxation processes in complex media provided one of the most impressive impulses to the development of statistical physics during the last decade. In particular the so-called fractional diffusion equation enabled one to capture the main features of anomalous diffusion. However the price for this achievement is ra...

Nuclear spin relaxation rate of disordered px+ ipy-wave superconductors

Anomalous diffusion in disordered media and random quantum spin chains

Using exact expressions for the persistence probability and for the leading eigenvalue of the Fokker-Planck operator of a random walk in a random environment, we establish a fundamental relation between the statistical properties of anomalous diffusion and the critical and off-critical behavior of random quantum spin chains. Many exact results are obtained from this correspondence, including th...

Viscosity in disordered media

The paper addresses the properties of glassforming melts in an attempt to predict the dependence of viscosity on temperature and on pressure. A review on the main viscosity models (free volume model, the Adam and Gibbs model etc.) is given. It is demonstrated that the activation energy can be expressed through the glass-transition temperature Tg. The main attention is concentrated on the jump f...