Periodicity-Doubling Cascades: Direct Observation in Ferroelastic Materials

Arnoud Everhardt; Silvia Damerio; Jacob A. Zorn; Silang Zhou; Neus Domingo; Gustau Catalan; Ekhard K. H.  Salje; Long-Qing Chen; Beatriz Noheda

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.087603

Periodicity-Doubling Cascades: Direct Observation in Ferroelastic Materials

Arnoud Everhardt, Silvia Damerio^*, Jacob A. Zorn, Silang Zhou, Neus Domingo, Gustau Catalan, Ekhard K. H. Salje, Long-Qing Chen, Beatriz Noheda

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Abstract

Very sensitive responses to external forces are found near phase transitions. However, transition dynamics and preequilibrium phenomena are difficult to detect and control. We have observed that the equilibrium domain structure following a phase transition in ferroelectric and ferroelastic BaTiO3 is attained by halving of the domain periodicity multiple times. The process is reversible, with periodicity doubling as temperature is increased. This observation is reminiscent of the period-doubling cascades generally observed during bifurcation phenomena, and, thus, it conforms to the “spatial chaos” regime earlier proposed by Jensen and Bak [Phys. Scr. T 9, 64 (1985)] for systems with competing spatial modulations.

Original language	English
Article number	087603
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	123
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.087603
Publication status	Published - 22-Aug-2019

Keywords

FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN-STRUCTURES
CONSERVED ORDER PARAMETERS
THIN-FILMS
PHASE-TRANSITIONS
STABILITY
INTERFACES
POLARIZATION
CHIRALITY
CRYSTALS
KINETICS

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