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A relationship between the amplitude of the susceptibility and the frequency of the maximum dielectric loss

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We recently presented a new theory of dielectric behaviour based on a many-body cooperative model of interacting dipoles1. It was shown that the experimentally observed non-Debye behaviour of many dielectric materials2 can be represented by these interactions, and a relationship for the frequency dependence of the susceptibility which describes the observed behaviour was presented. The temperature dependence of the simplest dielectric materials which exhibit a dipole alignment transition has now been examined in detail3. One consequence of the cooperative theory is particularly novel and is reported here.

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Hill, R., Dissado, L. A relationship between the amplitude of the susceptibility and the frequency of the maximum dielectric loss. Nature 281, 286–287 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/281286a0

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