The temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of vitreous silica has been calculated in the temperature range 0.1 to 100 K using an energy-independent density of states for the tunneling states. In contrast to a recent suggestion, it appears that this model cannot explain the "plateau" seen in the thermal conductivity between 4 and 20 K.
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Jones et al. (1983) studied this question.
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