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Silvia Tinte1, B P Burton, Eric Cockayne
1Ceramics Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8520, USA.
Abstract:
Molecular dynamics simulations of first-principles-based effective Hamiltonians for Pb(Sc{1/2}Nb{1/2})O(3) under hydrostatic pressure and for Pb(Mg{1/3}Nb{2/3})O(3) at ambient pressure show clear evidence of a relaxor state in both systems. The Burns temperature is identified as the temperature below which dynamic nanoscale polar clusters form, pinned to regions of quenched chemical short-range order. The effect of pressure in Pb(Sc{1/2}Nb{1/2})O(3) demonstrates that the stability of the relaxor state depends on a delicate balance between the energetics that stabilize normal ferroelectricity and the average strength of random local fields which promote the relaxor state.
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