Abstract
A high, rounded peak of the permittivity, ≈6×, at T≈18 K evidence a percolative-type phase transition into a random-field-induced ferroelectric domain state of the doped system (x=0.007). Dispersion measurements of the permittivity reveal strong polydispersivity of the system. Deviations from Arrhenius behavior below T=11 K indicate the onset of dissipative quantum tunneling of the dipoles between their different off-center positions. Anomalies in both the linear and the nonlinear dielectric permittivity are explained by the presence of two different dissipative cluster contributions. They are attributed to the reorientation of -centered polar nanometer-scale regions within ferroelastic single domains of the system and to their interaction with coherent acoustic quantum fluctuations of the host lattice, respectively.
- Received 5 December 1994
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.8737
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