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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2010

Pressure-temperature phase diagram of SrTiO3 up to 53 GPa

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We investigate the cubic to tetragonal phase transition in the pressure-temperature phase diagram of strontium titanate SrTiO 3 STO by means of Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction on single-crystal samples. X-ray diffraction experiments are performed at room temperature, 381 and 467 K up to 53 GPa, 30 GPa, and 26 GPa, respectively. The observation of the superstructure reflections in the x-ray patterns provides evidence that the crystal undergoes at all investigated temperatures a pressure-induced transition from cubic to the tetragonal I4 / mcm phase, identical to the low-temperature phase. No other phase transition is observed at room temperature up to 53 GPa. Together with previously published data, our results allow us to propose a linear phase boundary in the pressure-temperature phase diagram. The data are analyzed in the framework of the Landau theory of phase transitions. With a revised value of the coupling coefficient between the order parameter and the volume spontaneous strain, the model built from pressure-independent coefficients reproduces satisfactorily the boundary in the phase diagram, but fails at reflecting the more pronounced second-order character of the pressure-induced phase transition as compared to the temperature-induced transition. We propose a Landau potential suitable for the description of the pressure-induced phase transition. Finally, we show that particular attention has to be paid to hydrostatic conditions in the study of the high-pressure phase transition in STO.
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hal-01067367 , version 1 (30-01-2018)

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M. Guennou, P. Bouvier, J. Kreisel, D. Machon. Pressure-temperature phase diagram of SrTiO3 up to 53 GPa. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2010, 81 (5), pp.054115. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.81.054115⟩. ⟨hal-01067367⟩
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