ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
We have investigated effects of random substitution of proton sites with deuterons on the temperature- and pressure-induced phase transitions in squaric acid crystal, which consists of ferroelectrically ordered molecular sheets of [C4O4]2−(SQ2−) skeletons and intervening protons or deuterons. In the isotopically mixed crystals (H1−xDx )2SQ, the critical temperature Tc for the dielectric phase transition was found to increase linearly with the deuterium concentration x, while the critical pressure Pc increases nonlinearly with x at 300 K. Around the pressure ∼20 kbar above Pc , the constituent SQ2− skeletons in the paraelectric phase show a symmetry change from the asymmetric (C1h ) to centrosymmetric (C4h ) form, which is likely caused by the deformation of the correlated proton (deuteron) potential.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.460980
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