Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
1997-02-11
Phys.Rev. E, {56}, 562 (1997).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
25 pages (LATEX, no macros). 11 POSTSCRIPT figures enclosed. Submitted to Phisical Review E. Contact: gingras@astro.uwaterloo.
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.56.562
In a recent letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75}, 2360 (1996)] we briefly discussed the existence and nature of ferroelectric order in positionally disordered dipolar materials. Here we report further results and give a complete description of our work. Simulations of randomly frozen and dynamically disordered dipolar soft spheres are used to study ferroelectric ordering in non-crystalline systems. We also give a physical interpretation of the simulation results in terms of short- and long-range interactions. Cases where the dipole moment has 1, 2, and 3 components (Ising, XY and XYZ models, respectively) are considered. It is found that the Ising model displays ferroelectric phases in frozen amorphous systems, while the XY and XYZ models form dipolar glass phases at low temperatures. In the dynamically disordered model the equations of motion are decoupled such that particle translation is completely independent of the dipolar forces. These systems spontaneously develop long-range ferroelectric order at nonzero temperature despite the absence of any fined-tuned short-range spatial correlations favoring dipolar order. Furthermore, since this is a nonequilibrium model we find that the paraelectric to ferroelectric transition depends on the particle mass. For the XY and XYZ models, the critical temperatures extrapolate to zero as the mass of the particle becomes infinite, whereas, for the Ising model the critical temperature is almost independent of mass and coincides with the ferroelectric transition found for the randomly frozen system at the same density. Thus in the infinite mass limit the results of the frozen amorphous systems are recovered.
Ayton Gary
Gingras Michel J. -P.
Patey Grenfell N.
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