Electron glasses

Imry

https://arxiv.org/search/cond-mat?searchtype=author&query=Imry%2C+Y

• 2010 Electron Glass Dynamics

• 2008 A mean-field model for the electron glass dynamics

Phonon-induced tunneling processes are responsible for generating transitions between localized electronic sites, which eventually lead to the thermalization of the system.

• 2016 The effect of interactions and disorder on the relaxation of two-level systems in amorphous solids

However, with increased interactions the EG model shows slower dynamics whereas the TLS glass model shows faster dynamics. This suggests that given system specific properties, glass dynamics can be slowed down or sped up by the interactions

• 2016 Linear and Nonlinear Mesoscopic Thermoelectric Transport with Coupling to Heat Baths
  memory effects in electron glass

Nussinov

The "glass transition'' as a topological defect driven transition in a distribution of crystals and a prediction of a universal viscosity collapse
https://arxiv.org/search/cond-mat?searchtype=author&query=Nussinov%2C+Z

Ivar Martin article on the topic - polaronic effect on electrons

but the real coupling between phonons and TLSs is weak, so the final polaronic effect is small

compare with 1989 Interactions of two-level systems in glasses Kassner and Silbey