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Atomistic treatment of depolarizing energy and field in ferroelectric nanostructures

I. Ponomareva, I. I. Naumov, I. Kornev, Huaxiang Fu, L. Bellaiche

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0505622

Abstract

An atomistic approach allowing an accurate and efficient treatment of depolarizing energy and field in any low-dimensional ferroelectric structure is developed. Application of this approach demonstrates the limits of the widely used continuum model (even) for simple test cases. Moreover, implementation of this approach within a first-principles-based model reveals an unusual phase transition -- from a state exhibiting a spontaneous polarization to a phase associated with a toroid moment of polarization -- in a ferroelectric nanodot for a critical value of the depolarizing field.

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