Ferroelectric phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point
Abstract
Phase transition describes a mutational behavior of matter states at a critical transition temperature or external field. Despite the phase-transition orders are well sorted by classic thermodynamic theory, ambiguous situations interposed between the first- and second-order transitions were exposed one after another. Here, we report discovery of phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point in ferroelectric Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3. Our multi-scale transmission electron microscopy characterization reveals a number of geometrically frustrated microstructure features such as self-assembled hierarchical domain structure, degeneracy of mesoscale domain tetragonality and decoupled polarization-strain relationship. Associated with deviation from the classic mean-field theory, dielectric critical exponent anomalies and temperature dependent birefringence data unveil that the frustrated transition order stems from intricate competition of short-range polar orders and their decoupling to long-range lattice deformation. With supports from effective Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations, our findings point out a potentially universal mechanism to comprehend the abnormal critical phenomena occurring in phase-transition materials.
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- Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany)
- Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
- Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC (Canada)
- Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China)
- Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany); Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; European Commission, Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), Seventh Framework Programme (FP7); U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1868987
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; Ferroelectrics and multiferroics; Information storage; Phase transitions and critical phenomena
Citation Formats
Wei, Xian-Kui, Prokhorenko, Sergei, Wang, Bi-Xia, Liu, Zenghui, Xie, Yu-Juan, Nahas, Yousra, Jia, Chun-Lin, Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E., Mayer, Joachim, Bellaiche, Laurent, and Ye, Zuo-Guang. Ferroelectric phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25543-1.
Wei, Xian-Kui, Prokhorenko, Sergei, Wang, Bi-Xia, Liu, Zenghui, Xie, Yu-Juan, Nahas, Yousra, Jia, Chun-Lin, Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E., Mayer, Joachim, Bellaiche, Laurent, & Ye, Zuo-Guang. Ferroelectric phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25543-1
Wei, Xian-Kui, Prokhorenko, Sergei, Wang, Bi-Xia, Liu, Zenghui, Xie, Yu-Juan, Nahas, Yousra, Jia, Chun-Lin, Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E., Mayer, Joachim, Bellaiche, Laurent, and Ye, Zuo-Guang. Tue .
"Ferroelectric phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25543-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1868987.
@article{osti_1868987,
title = {Ferroelectric phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point},
author = {Wei, Xian-Kui and Prokhorenko, Sergei and Wang, Bi-Xia and Liu, Zenghui and Xie, Yu-Juan and Nahas, Yousra and Jia, Chun-Lin and Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E. and Mayer, Joachim and Bellaiche, Laurent and Ye, Zuo-Guang},
abstractNote = {Phase transition describes a mutational behavior of matter states at a critical transition temperature or external field. Despite the phase-transition orders are well sorted by classic thermodynamic theory, ambiguous situations interposed between the first- and second-order transitions were exposed one after another. Here, we report discovery of phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition point in ferroelectric Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3. Our multi-scale transmission electron microscopy characterization reveals a number of geometrically frustrated microstructure features such as self-assembled hierarchical domain structure, degeneracy of mesoscale domain tetragonality and decoupled polarization-strain relationship. Associated with deviation from the classic mean-field theory, dielectric critical exponent anomalies and temperature dependent birefringence data unveil that the frustrated transition order stems from intricate competition of short-range polar orders and their decoupling to long-range lattice deformation. With supports from effective Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations, our findings point out a potentially universal mechanism to comprehend the abnormal critical phenomena occurring in phase-transition materials.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-021-25543-1},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Sep 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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