Ferrielectric twin walls in CaTiO3.
Sizeable spontaneous polarization has been found in the (100) twin walls of CaTiO3, a definitely nonpolar material. Theoretical simulations of these walls show an extremely rich texture of the local polarization at and close to the walls, including a strong antiferroelectric component, and local nonzero contributions perpendicular to the wall plane, which do not contribute to the net dipole. Individual Ti displacements of 2 pm off the octahedron center give rise to a net polarization corresponding to a displacement of 0.6 pm in the direction of the bisector of the twin angle.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom.
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