Abstract

Time-aging-time superposition and the concept of single-parameter aging refer to the experimentally verified scenario in which the relaxation profile is shifted as a whole along the logarithmic time or frequency scale during physical aging, i.e., without changing the shape of the susceptibility spectrum or decay function. This homogeneous aspect of aging and structural recovery appears to contrast the heterogeneous nature of structural relaxation in equilibrium. A picture is proposed in which both structural recovery and relaxation are heterogeneous, but lacking a local correlation of time constants. This scenario is consistent with time-aging-time superposition and single-parameter aging, as well as with recovery and relaxation processes being subject to practically the same time constant dispersion.

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