Damped soft phonons and diffuse scattering in 40%Pb(Mg13Nb23)O360%PbTiO3

C. Stock, D. Ellis, I. P. Swainson, Guangyong Xu, H. Hiraka, Z. Zhong, H. Luo, X. Zhao, D. Viehland, R. J. Birgeneau, and G. Shirane
Phys. Rev. B 73, 064107 – Published 13 February 2006

Abstract

Using neutron elastic and inelastic scattering and high-energy x-ray diffraction, we present a comparison of 40%Pb(Mg13Nb23)O360%PbTiO3 (PMN-60PT) with pure Pb(Mg13Nb23)O3 (PMN) and PbTiO3 (PT). We measure the structural properties of PMN-60PT to be identical to pure PT, however, the lattice dynamics are exactly that previously found in relaxors PMN and Pb(Zn13Nb23)O3 (PZN). PMN-60PT displays a well-defined macroscopic structural transition from a cubic to tetragonal unit cell at 550K. The diffuse scattering is shown to be weak indicating that the structural distortion is long-range in PMN-60PT and short-range polar correlations (polar nanoregions) are not present. Even though polar nanoregions are absent, the soft optic mode is short-lived for wave vectors near the zone center. Therefore PMN-60PT displays the same waterfall effect as prototypical relaxors PMN and PZN. We conclude that it is random fields resulting from the intrinsic chemical disorder which is the reason for the broad transverse optic mode observed in PMN and PMN-60PT near the zone center and not due to the formation of short-ranged polar correlations. Through our comparison of PMN, PMN-60PT, and pure PT, we interpret the dynamic and static properties of the PMNxPT system in terms of a random field model in which the cubic anisotropy term dominates with increasing doping of PbTiO3.

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  • Received 4 August 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.064107

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

C. Stock1,2, D. Ellis1, I. P. Swainson3, Guangyong Xu4, H. Hiraka4, Z. Zhong5, H. Luo6, X. Zhao6, D. Viehland7, R. J. Birgeneau1,8, and G. Shirane4

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
  • 3National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario KOJ 1JO, Canada
  • 4Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
  • 5National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
  • 6Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 7Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
  • 8Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

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Vol. 73, Iss. 6 — 1 February 2006

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