Melting of spatially modulated phases at domain wall/surface junctions in antiferrodistortive multiferroics

Morozovska, Anna N.; Eliseev, Eugene A.; Chen, Deyang; Shvetz, Vladislav; Nelson, Christopher T.; Kalinin, Sergei V.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.102.075426

Title: Melting of spatially modulated phases at domain wall/surface junctions in antiferrodistortive multiferroics

Journal Article · Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.075426· OSTI ID:1842639

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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine). Inst. of Physics; Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National Univ. (Ukraine)
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine). Inst. of Physics
South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China). Inst. for Advanced Materials, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab. of Optical Information Materials and Technology
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National Univ. (Ukraine)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)

A physical understanding of the nature of spatially modulated phases (SMPs) in rare-earth-doped antiferrodistortive (AFD) multiferroics and how they behave close to surfaces and interfaces is lacking. Here the emergence of the antiferroelectric (AFE), ferroelectric (FE), or ferrielectric (AFE-FE) spatial modulation in the vicinity of the morphotropic phase transition in ${La}_{x} {Bi}_{1 - x} Fe O_{3}$ ( $x ~ 0.2$ ) is explored on the atomic level using high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HRSTEM). The suppression, or “melting,” of the AFE-type SMP in the vicinity of the AFD twin wall/surface junction is revealed by HRSTEM in ${La}_{0.22} {Bi}_{0.78} Fe O_{3}$ films and explained by the hybrid approach combining Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) phenomenology and the semimicroscopic four-sublattice model (FSM). The LGD-FSM approach reduces the problem of AFE (or AFE-FE) SMP emergence and stability to the thermodynamic analysis of the free-energy functional with AFE, FE, and AFD long-range order parameters and two master parameters: the FE-AFE coupling strength between four neighboring A sites and the nonstoichiometry factor, which are proportional to the variations of La concentration in ${La}_{x} {Bi}_{1 - x} Fe O_{3}$ films. Finally, we establish that the surface-induced melting of SMPs and the associated broadening of AFE AFD domain walls minimize the film free energy under certain conditions imposed on the master parameters and gradient energy below the critical value. The observed behavior provides insight into the origin of SMPs in AFD multiferroics.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); European Research Council (ERC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; U1832104; 11704130; 778070; 2017B030301007; 201906010016

OSTI ID:: 1842639

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 102, Issue 7; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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