Abstract
We show that very dilute concentrations of dipole impurities distributed in alkali halides (for example, impurities in KCl) undergo a phase transition provided that the average impurity-impurity interaction is greater than the tunnel-splitting energy of a single dipole. This theory predicts a temperature-dependent cusp in the dielectric constant. The polarization in the absence of an applied field is predicted to be zero even below the transition temperature.
- Received 7 July 1976
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.756
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