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Acta Physica Polonica A
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1994
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vol. 86
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issue 6
955-968
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A one-dimensional model of particles with a displacive degree of freedom for crystals possessing incommensurate phases which arise as a result of the condensation of either real two-dimensional or complex one-dimensional irreducible representations, has been proposed. For these representations all invariants of the free energy expansion can be divided to four general forms. For the active irreducible representations for which the invariants belong to the first form a complete list of invariants is derived. In this case the incommensurate modulation propagates along the symmetry axis and for such crystals a proposed one-dimensional model may be a good approach to describe the main features of the devil's staircase curve. The particles of the model interact with harmonic and anharmonic terms. The last ones may contain an additional third order term provided a soft phonon branch has a symmetry τ^{1}. The calculated phase diagrams show sequences of the incommensurate and commensurate one-dimensional phases. In the presence of the third order anharmonic term the incommensurate phase proves to be stable closer to the phase boundary to the normal phase.
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The Rayleigh scatte ring of the Mössbauer radiation is a less common technique used in the study of the properties of condensed matter. The detection of the scattered radiation via the nuclear resonance absorption, with an energy resolution of the order of 10^{-8} eV makes this technique very sensitive to dynamics changes. The results of our studies by the Rayleigh scattering of the Mössbauer radiation on pyrolytic graphite (C) and rubidium tetrachlorozincate (Rb_2ZnCl_4) are reported. The contribution of the coherent inelastic scattering to the total intensity in C(002) is presented like a consequence of the coupling motions of C atoms in the hexagonal plane. The normal-incommensurate phase transition in Rb_2ZnCl_4 is discussed in connection with the photon-phonon interaction.
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The continuous phase transitions are observed in the crystals with incommensurate phase. They are transitions of parent-incommensurate phases (T_i); transitions between metastable states; incommensurate-commensurate phases (T_c). It was set that phase transition between parent and incommensurate phase is a continuous second-order phase transition with a critical index β = 0.5. The transition between metastable states is a continuous phase transition through the intermediate temperature region - incommensurate phase. The wave vector changes with the temperature here and wave vectorwe q* = q₁ - q₂ appears, where q₁, q₂ denote commensurate values of incommensurability wave vector of neighboring metastable states. It was shown that the phase transition between incommensurate and commensurate phases is a continuous phase transition.
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Temperature behavior of the optical birefringence in the transitional regions of the incommensurate phase of [N(CH_3)]CuCl_4 was studied. Temperature dependencies of the modulated structure wave vector and of the specific heat in these regions were analyzed. The stochastic mode of the incommensurate modulated structure in [N(CH_3)]MeCl_4 (Me = Cu, Fe) dielectric crystals was discovered.
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Phenomenological and microscopic models to treat modulated crystal structures are reviewed. Their applicability to interpret the specific phase diagram of betaine-calciumchloride-dihydrate (BCCD), which is of the "incomplete devils,s staircase" type, is critically discussed. Some experimental observations, which emphasize the fractal topology of the BCCD phase diagram, have been compiled. They support the preference of microscopic approaches as the ANNNI-model over the classic Landau theory for this specific case.
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