Related papers: Dynamics of relaxor ferroelectrics
We present here the results of frequency dependent dielectric, polarization and powder X-ray powder diffraction studies in the 300 to 100K temperature range for Ba_0.55Sr_0.45TiO_3. The dielectric results indicate a succession of three…
We get fractional symmetric Fokker - Planck and Einstein - Smoluchowski kinetic equations, which describe evolution of the systems influenced by stochastic forces distributed with stable probability laws. These equations generalize known…
The interactions between the dielectric polarization and the fluctuations of the strain (stress) tensor in relaxor ferroelectrics are shown to give rise to the anisotropy of the anharmonic P4-term in the Landau-type free energy, however,…
Epitaxial thin films of relaxor PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 and PbSc0.5Nb0.5O3, and ferroelectric PbZr0.65Ti0.35O3, Pb0.955La0.045Zr0.65Ti0.35O3, and Ba0.4Sr0.6TiO3 were prepared, and their dielectric properties were studied in a broad range of the…
The nonexponential relaxation ocurring in complex dynamics manifested in a wide variety of systems is analyzed through a simple model of diffusion in phase space. It is found that the inability of the system to find its equilibrium state in…
We numerically elucidate the microscopic mechanisms controlling the relaxation dynamics of a three-dimensional lattice glass model that has static properties compatible with the approach to a random first-order transition. At low…
The non equilibrium relaxational dynamics of the solid on solid model on a disordered substrate and the Sine Gordon model with random phase shifts is studied numerically. Close to the super-roughening temperature $T_g$ our results for the…
We study relaxation dynamics of a three dimensional elastic manifold in random potential from a uniform initial condition by numerically solving the Langevin equation.We observe growth of roughness of the system up to larger wavelengths…
Relaxor ferroelectrics exhibit exceptional dielectric and electromechanical properties, yet their microscopic origins remain elusive due to the interplay of hierarchical polar structures and chemical complexity. While models based on polar…
We propose a simple dynamical model for a glass transition. The dynamics is described by a Langevin equation in a piecewise parabolic free energy landscape, modulated by a temperature dependent overall curvature. The zero-curvature point…
Dielectric study over a broadband was carried out from 10 to 70 K on ceramic Gd1-xYxMnO3 (x= 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4). For all the compositions, a prominent sharp peak about ~18K was observed in the temperature dependence of both {\epsilon}'(T)…
After a general overview of some features of the relaxation dynamics of the Hamiltonian Mean Field model, its equilibrium thermodynamic properties are used to rephrase the out-of-equilibrium regime for energies below the critical point…
We study the Langevin dynamics of diffusive particles with regular pairwise interactions under mean-field scaling. By approximating empirical distributions with conditional distributions, we establish coercive and contractive properties for…
Computational studies of the thermodynamic properties of materials at the mesoscopic and macroscopic scales -- involving lengths and times of at least $\mu$m and $\mu$s, respectively -- rely on a coarse-graining approximation such that only…
We revisit the issue of relaxation to thermal equilibrium in the so-called "sheet model", i.e., particles in one dimension interacting by attractive forces independent of their separation. We show that this relaxation may be very clearly…
This paper studies the dynamics of relaxation phenomena in the standard dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model [Groot and Warren, JCP, 107:4423 (1997)]. Using fluctuating hydrodynamics as the framework of the investigation, we focus on…
The equations for phase transitions temperatures, order parameters and critical concentrations of components have been derived for mixed ferroelectrics. The electric dipoles randomly distributed over the system were considered as a random…
We calculated the frequency dependent dielectric response (electric susceptibility) of layered ferroelectric-dielectric junction, biased by the time-dependent harmonic voltage with single frequency $\omega$. Working point is stabilized, by…
Ferrogels are smart soft materials, consisting of a polymeric network and embedded magnetic particles. Novel phenomena, such as the variation of the overall mechanical properties by external magnetic fields, emerge consequently. However,…
Dielectric, anelastic and ^139La NMR relaxation measurements have been made on the relaxor ferroelectric Pb(1-3x/2)La(x)Zr(0.2)Ti(0.8)O(3) (PLZT) with x = 0.22. The dielectric susceptibility exihibits the frequency dispersive maximum due to…