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Contribution of spontaneous polarization and its fluctuations to refraction of light in ferroelectrics

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The expressions for the spontaneous polar contribution δn s i to the principal values of the refractive index due to the quadratic electro-optic effect in ferroelectrics have been considered within the phenomenological approach taking into account the polarization fluctuations. A method has been proposed for calculating the magnitude and temperature dependence of the root-mean-square fluctuations of the polarization (short-range local polar order) P sh = 〈P 2fl 〉1/2 below the ferroelectric transition temperature T c from temperature changes in the spontaneous polar contribution δn s i (T) if the average spontaneous polarization P s = 〈P〉 characterizing the long-range order is determined from independent measurements (for example, from dielectric hysteresis loops). For the case of isotropic fluctuations, the proposed method has made it possible to calculate P sh and P s only from refractometric measurements. It has been shown that, upon interferometric measurements, the method developed in this work allows calculating P sh and P s directly from the measured temperature and electric-field changes in the relative optical path (the specific optical retardation) of the light.

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  1. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    P. A. Markovin, V. A. Trepakov & A. K. Tagantsev

  2. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, Prague 8, 182 21, Czech Republic

    V. A. Trepakov & A. Deineka

  3. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Route Cantonale, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland

    A. K. Tagantsev

  4. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 29, Moscow, 195251, Russia

    D. A. Andreev

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Original Russian Text © P.A. Markovin, V.A. Trepakov, A.K. Tagantsev, A. Deineka, D.A. Andreev, 2016, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2016, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 131–135.

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Markovin, P.A., Trepakov, V.A., Tagantsev, A.K. et al. Contribution of spontaneous polarization and its fluctuations to refraction of light in ferroelectrics. Phys. Solid State 58, 134–139 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783416010200

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