Oder-disorder and displacive transitions in a quantum ising model
        Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Volume 77 Issue 8
        Page 084709-1-084709-6
        
    published_at 2008
            Title
        
        Oder-disorder and displacive transitions in a quantum ising model
        
        
    
            Creator Keywords
        
            order-disorder
            displacive
            ferroelectric transition
            anharmonic-oscillator model
            quantum Ising model
            susceptibility
            specific heat
            Debye-Waller factor
    A ferrodistortive phase transition is analyzed for a quantum particles in a simple quartic potential. The interactions are taken into account by the mean-field approximation. A quantum thermodynamic treatment gives analytic expressions for the static susceptibility, the specific heat and the soft mode frequency. The Rhodes-Wohlfarth ratio is a measure whether the system is order-disorder or displacive, however, the border is fuzzy depending on the interaction strength. The quantum effect is discussed when the transition takes place at low temperature. Whether the atomic density is a single or multiple peak distributions seems to be a definite criterion for the character of the structural phase transition.
        
        
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            eng
    
    
        
            Resource Type
        
        journal article
    
    
        
            Publishers
        
            The Physical Society of Japan
    
    
        
            Date Issued
        
        2008
    
    
            Rights
        
            Copyright c (2008)The Physical Society of Japan()
    
        
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        Author’s Original
    
    
        
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        open access
    
    
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                [ISSN]0031-9015
            
            
                
                
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            大学院理工学研究科(理学)
    
                
