Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-12-28
Phys. Rev. B 83, 245205 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
12 pages, 6 figures. Typos in Eq.(9) and Eq. (12) corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.245205
We have computed second and third nonlinear optical susceptibilities of two crystalline bulk tellurium oxide polymorphs: $\alpha$-TeO$_{2}$ (the most stable crystalline bulk phase) and $\gamma$-TeO$_{2}$ (the crystalline phase that ressembles the more to the glass phase. Third order nonlinear susceptibilities of the crystalline phases are two orders of magnitude larger than $\alpha$-SiO$_{2}$ cristoballite, thus extending the experimental observations on glasses to the case of crystalline compounds. While the electronic lone pairs of Te contribute to those large values, a full explanation of the anisotropy of the third order susceptibility tensor requires a detailed analysis of the structure, in particular the presence of helical chains, that seems to be linked to cooperative non-local polarizabilty effects. Our results demonstrate that first-principles simulations are a powerful predictive tool to estimate nonlinear optical susceptibilitites of materials.
Berkaine Nabil
Junquera Javier
Masson Olivier
Orhan Emmanuelle
Thomas Philippe
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