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Pressure-Temperature phase diagram of multiferroic EuTiO$_3$

Materials Science 2015-08-12 v1

Abstract

The structural transformation of multiferroic EuTiO3_3 has been intensively investigated by synchrotron x-ray diffraction at pressures up to 50.3 GPa and temperatures from 50 to 500 K. An antiferrodistortive phase transition from cubic Pm-3m to tetragonal I4/mcm space group has been observed, identical to the one that has been previously explored at ambient pressure and low temperatures. Several compression/decompression cycles at different temperatures have been carried out to accurately map the transition, and as a result a P-T phase diagram for EuTiO3_3 has been constructed. The observed phase transition exhibits many similarities with isostructural SrTiO3_3, although the absence of magnetoelectric interactions in the latter accounts for the different phase boundaries between the two materials.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05049,
  title  = {Pressure-Temperature phase diagram of multiferroic EuTiO$_3$},
  author = {P. Parisiades and E. Liarokapis and J. Köhler and A. Bussmann-Holder and M. Mezouar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05049},
  year   = {2015}
}
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