Freezing of the local dynamics in the relaxor ferroelectric PZN-4.5PT

Details Freezing of the local dynamics in the relaxor ferroelectric PZN-4.5PT Freezing of the local dynamics in the relaxor ferroelectric PZN-4.5PT

2012-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/1203.3810v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 4 figures

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We report measurements of the neutron diffuse scattering in a single crystal of the relaxor ferroelectric material 95.5%Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-4.5%PbTiO3 (PZN-4.5%PT). We show that the diffuse scattering at high temperatures has a quasielastic component with energy width $\agt$ 0.1 meV. On cooling the total diffuse scattering intensity increases, but the intensity and the energy width of the quasielastic component gradually diminish. At 50 K the diffuse scattering is completely static (i.e.the energy width lies within the limits of our instrumental resolution). This suggests that the dynamics of the short-range correlated atomic displacements associated with the diffuse scattering freeze at low temperature. We find that this depends on the wave vector q as the quasielastic diffuse scattering intensities associated with <001> (T1-type) and <110> (T2-type) atomic displacements vary differently with temperature and electric field.

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