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Annealing as a Problem in Genetics
Author(s) -
PRESTON F. W.
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1953.tb12873.x
Subject(s) - polaron , annealing (glass) , condensed matter physics , extinction (optical mineralogy) , population , birefringence , materials science , statistical physics , physics , quantum mechanics , optics , composite material , demography , sociology , electron
By analogy with the random loss of genes (or the extinction of family trees) in a biological population, it may be possible to compute the random loss of strain (or the extinction of “polarons”) in the process of annealing glass at constant temperature. In the simplest case this leads to a solution indistinguishable from the Adams and Williamson law of annealing, the “polarons” acting as independent individuals. In more complex cases it leads to partial loss of strain, with a finite residual birefringence that cannot be removed, which appears to agree closely with the observations of Hampton (1926) and of Ghering (1950). This involves the co‐operation of “polarons” in pairs or groups.