The effect of a boson peak (BP) on the low-temperature electron spin–lattice relaxation in amorphous materials is investigated. It is shown that the contribution of the boson peak to one-phonon relaxation for EPR frequencies within the boson peak width dominates over the Debye contribution, and the field dependence of relaxation rate changes qualitatively, while the temperature dependence remains unchanged.
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