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29 March 2024
 
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Observation of Kibble-Zurek behavior near the Lifshitz point in ferroelectrics with incommensurate phase
K.Z. Rushchanskii ; A. Molnar ; R. Bilanych ; R. Yevych ; A. Kohutych ; Yu.M. Vysochanskii ; V. Samulionis ; J. Banys ;
Date 23 Sep 2014
AbstractWe have investigated non-equilibrium properties of proper uniaxial Sn$_2$P$_2$(Se$_x$S$_{1-x}$)$_6$ ferroelectrics with the Type II incommensurate phase above Lifshitz point $x_{ m LP} sim 0.28$. We measured dielectric susceptibility with cooling and heating rate ranging 0.002-0.1~K/min, and high-resolution ultrasound experiments and hypersound Brillouin scattering. For samples with $x geqslant 0.28$ clear anomalies were observed at incommensurate second order transition ($T_i$) and at first order lock-in transition ($T_c$) in the regime of very slow cooling rate, whereas the intermediate IC phase is not observed when the rate is faster then 0.1~K/min. In general, increasing the cooling rate leads to smearing the anomaly at $T_c$. We explain this effect in terms of Kibble-Zurek model for non-equilibrium second order phase transitions. In the ferroelectrics with strongly nonlinear local potential cooling rate defines concentration of domain walls and their size: domain width decreases when cooling rate increases. At certain conditions the size of domain is comparable to the incommensurate phase modulation period, which lies in micrometer scale in the vicinity of Lifshitz point and leads to pinning of the modulation period by domain wall.
Source arXiv, 1409.6364
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