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压力下钙钛矿八面体倾斜的规律和机制

Rules and mechanisms governing octahedral tilts in perovskites under pressure

H. J. Xiang, Mael Guennou, Jorge Íñiguez, Jens Kreisel, L. Bellaiche

摘要:

八面体的旋转(八面体倾斜)在ABO 3钙钛矿中很常见,并且与许多物理现象有关,从电子和磁性,金属-绝缘体转变到不适当的铁电性。流体静压是调节和控制八面体倾斜的有效方法。然而,这种倾斜的压力行为可以从一种材料到另一种材料显着不同,这种差异的起源仍然存在争议。在这项工作中,我们发现了几个新的机制,并制定了一套简单的规则,允许理解压力如何影响氧八面体倾斜,通过使用和分析各种化合物的第一原理结果。除了已知的A-O相互作用外,我们还揭示了特定的B离子和氧离子之间的相互作用对倾斜不稳定性的贡献。我们解释了以前报道的趋势,氧八面体倾斜相对于压力(dR/dP)的衍生物通常与公差因子和电离状态的A-离子,说明A-O相互作用的关键作用和压力下的变化。此外,还发现了三个新的机制/规则。我们进一步预测,极化与所谓的混合不当铁电性可以操纵流体静压,间接控制八面体旋转的幅度。

英文摘要:

The rotation of octahedra (octahedral tilting) is common in ABO3 perovskites and relevant to many physical phenomena, ranging from electronic and magnetic properties, metal-insulator transitions to improper ferroelectricity. Hydrostatic pressure is an efficient way to tune and control octahedral tiltings. However, the pressure behavior of such tiltings can dramatically differ from one material to another, with the origins of such differences remaining controversial. In this work, we discover several new mechanisms and formulate a set of simple rules that allow to understand how pressure affects oxygen octahedral tiltings, via the use and analysis of first-principles results for a variety of compounds. Besides the known A-O interactions, we reveal that the interactions between specific B-ions and oxygen ions contribute to the tilting instability. We explain the previously reported trend that the derivative of the oxygen octahedral tilting with respect to pressure (dR/dP) usually decreases with both the tolerance factor and the ionization state of the A-ion, by illustrating the key role of A-O interactions and their change under pressure. Furthermore, three new mechanisms/rules are discovered. We further predict that the polarization associated with the so-called hybrid improper ferroelectricity could be manipulated by hydrostatic pressure, by indirectly controlling the amplitude of octahedral rotations.

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