Low-frequency dielectric response of charge-density wave pinned by commensurability in (2,5(OCH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>DCNQI)<sub>2</sub>Li
S. Tomić; N. Biškup; M. Pinterić; J. U. von Schütz; H. Schmitt; R. Moret
Журнал:
EPL (Europhysics Letters)
Дата:
1997-04-20
Аннотация:
We have used complex conductivity measurements between 20 Hz and 1 MHz to probe the dielectric response in the low-temperature phase of the (2,5(OCH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>DCNQI)<sub>2</sub>Li organic conductor. The observed data reveal the existence of the relaxation process which is well described by a Debye-like expression for an overdamped response of a system with a single degree of freedom. Both the static dielectric constant (ε<sub>0</sub> = 3 × 10<sup>7</sup>) and the characteristic relaxation time (τ<sub>0</sub>) are much larger than that expected for single-particle excitations. τ<sub>0</sub> is thermally activated in a manner similar to the dc conductivity. We attribute the observed relaxation to N = 4 charge density wave pinned by commensurability to the underlying lattice.
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