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It is demonstrated that the substances with small difference in the free energies of the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases possess a set of properties characteristic for the so-called "dipole glasses". Possible phase diagrams of…
Ferroelectricity in hafnia is often regarded as a breakthrough discovery in ferroelectrics, potentially able to revolutionize the whole field. Despite increasing interests, a comprehensive understanding of the many factors driving the…
The polarization and density modulation associated with antiferroelectric ordering is studied experimentally as a function of temperature in two ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, the prototypical single compound (DIO) and a commercial…
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…
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…
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 the Landau model for lock-in phase transitions in uniaxially modulated improper ferroelectric incommensurate-commensurate systems of class I. It includes Umklapp terms of third and fourth order and secondary order parameter…
We study the possibility to apply phenomenological approach to the description of magnetic transitions in UGe$_2$ at ambient pressure with the help of Landau free energy expanded to 8th order in magnetisation. The analysis shows that for…
A simple model to reproduce strong enhancement of dielectric response near the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) is proposed. This model consists of long-range dipole-dipole interaction and compositional chemical disorder incorporated by…
We study the free energy landscape of a minimal model for relaxor ferroelectrics. Using a variational method which includes leading correlations beyond the mean-field approximation as well as disorder averaging at the level of a simple…
Ferroelectrics are widely used for a broad array of technological applications due to their attractive electrical and electromechanical properties. In order to obtain large functional properties, material compositions are often designed to…
Experimental and theoretical studies of unusual polar, dielectric and magnetic properties of room temperature multiferroics, such as perovskites Pb(Fe$_{1/2}$Nb$_{1/2}$)O$_3$ (PFN) and Pb(Fe$_{1/2}$Ta$_{1/2}$)O$_3$ (PFT), are very…
We investigate the microstructural evolution in a ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase transition at the morphotropic phase boundary in the Bi(1-x)SmxFeO3 system. Continuous Sm3+ substitution on the A-site induces short-range…
The four-state model is proposed for description of phase transition in ferroelectric crystals of DMAGaS and DMAAlS type. Thermodynamical functions of the model are obtained in the mean field approximation. The phase transition between…
We discuss a simple phenomenological Landau theory of phase transitions with two coupled single-component order parameters and compare the results with available experimental data. The model corresponds to the case of a ferroic system, in…
Density functional calculations are performed to investigate the experimentally-reported field-induced phase transition in thin-film ZrO2 (J. Muller et al., Nano. Lett. 12, 4318). We find a small energy difference of ~ 1 meV/f.u. between…
In this work, we report a massively parallel and time domain implementation of the 3D phase field model that can reach beyond micron scale and consider for arbitrary electrical and mechanical boundary conditions. The first part of the paper…
Proximity ferroelectricity has recently been reported as a new design paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity, where a non-ferroelectric polar material becomes a ferroelectric by interfacing with a thin ferroelectric layer. Strongly polar…
We present key issues of related phenomenons of the Ferroelectricity and the Charge Disproportionation in organic metals. In (TMTTF_2X the dielectric susceptibility demonstrates clear cases of the ferroelectric and anti-ferroelectric phase…
Physical effects caused by the presence of interfaces between the domains of coexisting ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases in solid solutions with small difference in free energies of the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric states…