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PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE
Volume 51, Issue 7, Pages 1404-1408Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1134/S1063783409070208
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The vibrational frequencies of the BiFeO3 crystal lattice in the cubic phase (Pm3m) and the rhombohedral paraelectric phase (R3c) are calculated in terms of the ab initio model of an ionic crystal with the inclusion of the dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities. In the ferroelectric phase with the symmetry R3c, the calculated spontaneous polarization of 136 mu C cm(-2) agrees well with the experimental data. The dependences of the unit cell volume, the elastic modulus, and the vibrational frequencies on the pressure are calculated. It is found that the frequency of an unstable ferroelectric mode in both the cubic (Pm3m) and rhombohedral (R3c) phases are almost independent of the applied pressure, in contrast to classical ferroelectrics with a perovskite structure, where the ferroelectric instability is very sensitive to a variation in the pressure.
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