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On the drastic temperature broadening of hard mode Raman lines of ferroelectric KDP type crystals near Tc

  • I. Laulicht

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Abstract

The drastic broadening of a few A1 Raman lines of ferroelectric KH2PO4(KDP) and KH2AsO4(KDA) crystals have been measured at various temperatures near Tc. The results in KDP are in fair agreement with two different simplified expressions of linewidths, which are based on pseudospin-phonon interaction arguments. No such agreement is found between the results and a simplified linewidth expression derived from a theory based on soft mode-hard mode interaction arguments. The linewidths and the reciprocal of the proton spin-lattice relaxation time in KDP exhibit a very similar temperature dependence below Tc but behave differently above Tc. This phenomena is presented in detail, and discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)901-906
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Volume39
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1978

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