The microwave and millimetre-wave dielectric response of
Rb0.5(ND4)0.5D2PO4 dipolar
glass has been studied around the frustration temperature
Tf≈120 K. It was found that above the
frustration temperature Tf the soft relaxational deuteron
mode is responsible for the whole dielectric dynamics below the
phonon range. Its frequency decreases from
that of submillimetre waves
to that of microwaves following the classical law νR = A(T-Tf), with A = 0.75 GHz K-1, but
in the vicinity of Tf the soft mode gradually shifts
towards the glass-like dispersion predominantly related to the
diffusion of Takagi defects according to the Vogel-Fulcher law.
From the experimental results, the distribution of the
relaxation times and of the local polarization at various
temperatures is calculated. It is shown that the
local polarization distribution function obtained from the
dielectric response ε*(ν,T)
coincides well with that obtained from the NMR results.
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