Invariance of conductivity relaxation under pressure and temperature variations at constant conductivity relaxation time in 0.4Ca(NO₃)₂-0.6KNO₃.

Abstract

The article reports the dependence of the conductivity relaxation on temperature T and pressure P in the canonical ionic glass former 0.4Ca(NO(3))(2)-0.6KNO(3)(CKN). At constant conductivity relaxation time τ(σ), the entire conductivity relaxation spectra obtained at widely different combinations of T and P superpose almost perfectly, and thus it is the ion-ion interaction but not thermodynamics that determines the frequency dispersion. Moreover, on vitrifying CKN by either elevating P or decreasing T, changes of P or T dependence of τ(σ) at the glass transition pressure P(g) and temperature T(g) are observed to occur at the same value, i.e., τ(σ)(P(g))=τ(σ)(T(g)), indicating that the relation between τ(σ) and the structural relaxation time τ(α) is also independent of P and T.