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VOLUME 75 (2002) | ISSUE 8 | PAGE 483
Fluctuations and Landau-Devonshire expansion for barium titanate
PACS: 77.80.Bh, 77.84.Bw
Abstract
The experimentally observed temperature dependence of the quartic coefficients in the Landau- Devonshire expansion for BaTiO3 is naturally accounted for within a proper fluctuation model. It is explained, in particular, why one of the quartic coefficients varies with temperature above Tc while the second is constant. The tetragonal phase in BaTiO3 is argued to exist essentially due to the thermal fluctuations, while the true Landau- Devonshire expansion with temperature- independent coefficients favours the rhombohedral ferroelectric phase.