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    Domain walls in a perovskite oxide with two primary structural order parameters: First-principles study of BiFeO3

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10902/4179
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024102
    ISSN: 1098-0121
    ISSN: 1550-235X
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    Diéguez, Oswaldo; Aguado Puente, Pablo; Junquera Quintana, Francisco JavierAutoridad Unican; Íñiguez, Jorge
    Date
    2013-01
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    ©2013 American Physical Society
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    Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, vol. 87, iss. 2, art. num. 024102 (2013)
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    American Physical Society
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.024102
    Abstract:
    We present a first-principles study of ferroelectric domain walls (FE-DWs) in multiferroic BiFeO3 (BFO), a material in which the FE order parameter coexists with antiferrodistortive (AFD) modes involving rotations of the O6 octahedra. We find that the energetics of the DWs are dominated by the capability of the domains to match their O6 octahedra rotation patterns at the plane of the wall, so that the distortion of the oxygen groups is minimized. Our results thus indicate that, in essence, it is the discontinuity in the AFD order parameter, and not the change in the electric polarization, that decides which crystallographic planes are most likely to host BFO's FE-DWs. Such a result clearly suggests that the O6 rotational patterns play a primary role in the FE phase of this compound, in contrast with the usual (implicit) assumption that they are subordinated to the FE order parameter. Our calculations show that, for the most favorable cases in BFO, the DW energy amounts to several tens of mJ/m2, which is higher than what was computed for other ferroelectric perovskites with no O6 rotations. Interestingly, we find that the structure of BFO at the most stable DWs resembles the atomic arrangements that are characteristic of low-lying (meta)stable phases of the material. Further, we argue that our results for the DWs of bulk BFO are related with the nanoscale-twinned structures that Prosandeev et al. [Adv. Funct. Mater. (2012)] have recently predicted to occur in this compound, and suggest that BFO can be viewed as a polytypic material. Our work thus contributes to shape a coherent picture of the structural variants that BFO can present and the way in which they are related.
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