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AUTHOR
A. Kuznetsov
Notes on the Electroelastic Interaction in Joint Hamiltonian and Stochastic Treatment of Polarization Response
Conventional Landau theory for ferroelectric phase instability is extended by entities accounting for the violation of thermodynamic equilibrium and the impact of thermal fluctuations. The physical content concerns Ginzburg-Landau type model Hamiltonians assigned to the mean field interaction of macroscopically small and microscopically large lattice cells affected by thermal fluctuations. A special topic derived in a systematic way is long range electroelastic interaction formally given by selfconsistent solution of the polarization and strain fields. Test solution for inhomogeneous strain in a slab is presented within the framework of lattice cell picture.
Mesoscopic Scale Structural Instability in Ferroelectrics
First-principles statistics addressed to structural phase transitions and temperature development of ferroelectric response is derived within the framework of the Fokker-Planck (Smoluchowsky) equation as complementary to the Monte Carlo [R.D King-Smith., D Vanderbilt, Phys. Rev. B 49, 5828–5844 (1994)] and molecular dynamics [T. Nishimatsu, U. V Waghmare, Y. Kawazoe., D. Vanderbilt, arXiv:0804.1853v2] simulations. Illustrative example of is given for 5 × 5 × 5 BaTiO 3 supercell.
Inferring possible magnetic field strength of accreting inflows in EXor-type objects from scaled laboratory experiments
Aims. EXor-type objects are protostars that display powerful UV-optical outbursts caused by intermittent and powerful events of magnetospheric accretion. These objects are not yet well investigated and are quite difficult to characterize. Several parameters, such as plasma stream velocities, characteristic densities, and temperatures, can be retrieved from present observations. As of yet, however, there is no information about the magnetic field values and the exact underlying accretion scenario is also under discussion. Methods. We use laboratory plasmas, created by a high power laser impacting a solid target or by a plasma gun injector, and make these plasmas propagate perpendicularly to …
STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY IN FERROELECTRICS: SUPERIMPOSING HAMILTONIAN AND STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS
ABSTRACT Structural instability of ferroelectrics distinguished by appearance of coexisting phases and spatial inhomogeneity is at variance with the predictions of statistics in the canonical ensemble. A more refined description includes ergodicity breaking which become apparent at critical temperature when the system resides in metastable state and its development lead to one of possible minimum energy states. In this study the domain growth and switching is reproduced within the framework of Fokker-Planck approach. The mathematical technique is developed for empiric Landau Hamiltonians and improved for application to first principles effective Hamiltonians with supercells and elementary l…