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Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087601 (2008) [4 pages]

Predicting Polarization and Nonlinear Dielectric Response of Arbitrary Perovskite Superlattice Sequences

Xifan Wu,1 Massimiliano Stengel,2 Karin M. Rabe,3 and David Vanderbilt3
1Chemistry Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0001, USA
2Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-5050, USA
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA

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Received 22 May 2008; published 18 August 2008

We carry out first-principles calculations of the nonlinear dielectric response of short-period ferroelectric superlattices. We compute and store not only the total polarization, but also the Wannier-based polarizations of individual atomic layers, as a function of the electric displacement field, and use this information to construct a model capable of predicting the nonlinear dielectric response of an arbitrary superlattice sequence. We demonstrate the successful application of our approach to superlattices composed of SrTiO3, CaTiO3, and BaTiO3 layers.

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.087601
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.087601
PACS: 77.22.Ej; 77.80.-e; 77.84.Lf
  • 77.22.Ej
    Dielectric polarization and depolarization
  • 77.80.-e
    Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity
  • 77.84.Lf
    Dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric composite materials
  • YEAR: 2008

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