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Anomalous Sound Velocity and Dielectric Shift in Glass: a Renormalization Technique for Mechanical and Dielectric Susceptibilities from Generic Coupled Block Model

Glass sound velocity shift was observed to be longarithmically temperature dependent in both relaxation and resonance regimes: $Δc/c=\mathcal{C}\ln T$. It does not monotonically increase with temperature from $T=0$K, but to reach a maximum around a few Kelvin. Different from tunneling-two-level-system (TTLS) which gives the slope ratio between relaxation and resonance regimes $\mathcal{C}^{\rm rel }:\mathcal{C}^{\rm res }=-\frac{1}{2}:1$, we develop a generic coupled block model to give $\mathcal{C}^{\rm rel }:\mathcal{C}^{\rm res }=-1:1$, which agrees well with the majority of experimental measurements. We use electric dipole-dipole interaction to carry out a similar behavior for glass dielectric constant shift $Δε/ε=\mathcal{C}\ln T$. The slope ratio between relaxation and resonance regimes is $\mathcal{C}^{\rm rel}:\mathcal{C}^{\rm res}=1:-1$ which agrees with dielectric measurements quite well. By developing a renormalization procedure for non-elastic stress-stress and dielectric susceptibilities, we prove these universalities essentially come from $1/r^3$ long range interactions, independent of materials' microscopic properties.