Relaxor ferroelectricity and the freezing of short-range polar order in magnetite

Details Relaxor ferroelectricity and the freezing of short-range polar order in magnetite Relaxor ferroelectricity and the freezing of short-range polar order in magnetite

2010-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/1007.3613v2

Phys. Rev. B 83, 195109 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages, 4 figures, final version with revisions according to referee demands

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.195109

A thorough investigation of single crystalline magnetite using broadband dielectric spectroscopy and other methods provides evidence for relaxor-like polar order in Fe3O4. We find long-range ferroelectric order to be im-peded by the continuous freezing of polar degrees of freedom and the formation of a tunneling-dominated glasslike state at low temperatures. This also explains the lack of clear evidence for a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure below the Verwey transition. Within the framework of recent models assuming an intimate relation of charge and polar order, the charge order, too, can be speculated to be of short-range type only and to be dominated by tunneling at low temperatures.

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