Random electric field instabilities of relaxor ferroelectrics

Arce-Gamboa, Jose R.; Guzman-Verri, Gian G.

doi:10.1038/s41535-017-0032-9

Title: Random electric field instabilities of relaxor ferroelectrics

Journal Article · Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · npj Quantum Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-017-0032-9· OSTI ID:1364023

Arce-Gamboa, Jose R. ^[1]; Guzman-Verri, Gian G. ^[2]

Univ. de Costa Rica, San Jose (Costa Rica)
Univ. de Costa Rica, San Jose (Costa Rica); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Relaxor ferroelectrics are complex oxide materials which are rather unique to study the effects of compositional disorder on phase transitions. Here, we study the effects of quenched cubic random electric fields on the lattice instabilities that lead to a ferroelectric transition and show that, within a microscopic model and a statistical mechanical solution, even weak compositional disorder can prohibit the development of long-range order and that a random field state with anisotropic and power-law correlations of polarization emerges from the combined effect of their characteristic dipole forces and their inherent charge disorder. As a result, we compare and reproduce several key experimental observations in the well-studied relaxor PbMg_1/3Nb_2/3O₃–PbTiO₃.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1364023

Journal Information:: npj Quantum Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 1; ISSN 2397-4648

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