Soft-mode behavior and the dipolar glass transition in KTa sub 1 minus x Nb sub x O sub 3
- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (USA)
- AT T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (USA)
- Risoe National Laboratory, Postbus 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark (DK)
- Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California 90265 (USA)
An inelastic neutron scattering study of KTa{sub 1{minus}{ital x}}Nb{sub {ital x}}O{sub 3} ({ital x}=0.012) (KTN) shows that there is a marked softening of the zone-center optic mode with decreasing temperature. This mode reaches a nonzero minimum energy of {approx}0.9 meV at {ital T}=20 K and renormalizes to higher energies as the temperature is further lowered, in agreement with light-scattering results on the same sample. In addition, x-ray diffraction does not reveal any structural phase transition in this temperature range. A recent light-scattering study on a {ital x}=0.009 sample suggests that KTN has a dipolar glass phase with a transition temperature of 3 K. The present observation of incomplete softening is similar to the soft-mode behavior characteristic of other mixed systems and provides further evidence of the dipolar glass properties of KTN.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 6836642
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (USA) Vol. 41:10; ISSN PRBMD; ISSN 0163-1829
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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