Ryota Masuki
;
Takuya Nomoto
;
Ryotaro Arita
;
Terumasa Tadano
(National Institute for Materials Science
)
説明:
(abstract)Inspired by the recent discovery of a new polar metal LiReO 3 by K. Murayama et al, we calculate the temperature (T)-dependent crystal structures of LiBO 3 with B = Ta, W, Re, Os, using the self-consistent phonon (SCPH) theory. We have reproduced the experimentally observed polar-nonpolar structural phase transitions and the transition temperatures (T c ) of LiTaO 3 , LiReO 3 , and LiOsO 3 . From the calculation, we predict that LiWO3 is a polar metal, which is yet to be tested experimentally. Upon doping electrons to the insulating LiTaO 3 , the predicted T c is quickly suppressed and approaches those of the polar metals. Thus, there is a continuous crossover between ferroelectric insulators and polar metals if we dope electrons to the ferroelectric insulators. Investigating the detailed material dependence of the interatomic force constants (IFCs), we explicitly show that the suppression of T c in polar metals can be ascribed to the screening of the long-range Li-O interaction, which is caused by the presence of the itinerant electrons. The quantitative finite-temperature calculations do not show signs of unscreened long-range interactions by the weak electron-phonon coupling or enhancement of polar instabilities by carrier doping, as expected in some previous works.
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キーワード: first-principles calculation, phonons, structural phase transition, polar metal, lattice anharmonicity
刊行年月日: 2024-09-03
出版者: American Physical Society (APS)
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原稿種別: 著者最終稿 (Accepted manuscript)
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公開URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.094102
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更新時刻: 2024-09-09 16:30:30 +0900
MDRでの公開時刻: 2024-09-09 16:30:30 +0900
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