Abstract
A complete theoretical description of the effect of the relaxation of two-state structural defects on the elastic properties of glasses at low temperatures is given. New experimental data on the ultrasonic attenuation in vitreous silica and borosilicate glass in the temperature range between 0.3 and 4 K and at frequencies between 30 and about 500 MHz are presented and explained by this theory. We propose that over the entire temperature range from our lowest temperature of 0.3 to about 100 K the attenuation is due to the relaxation of defects with similar atomic structure.
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