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A phenomenological model is proposed which provides an adequate description of the effect of induced pyroelectric ordering on the gyrotropy in lead germanate and can be used to calculate temperature-dependent components of the acoustic-activity tensor.
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Shablovskii, Y.O. Induced Acoustic Activity of Disordered Pb5Ge3O11 . Inorganic Materials 38, 709–713 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016296510084
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