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The Cr3+ EPR spectra of Li2Ge7O15 (LGO) crystals are analyzed in the temperature range of the ferroelectric phase transition. The temperature dependence of the local order parameter is determined from the measured splittings of the EPR lines in the polar phase. The experimental critical exponent of the order parameter β=0.31 in the range from the phase transition temperature T C to (T C -T) ∼ 40 K corresponds to the critical exponent of the three-dimensional Ising model. Analysis of the available data demonstrates that, away from the phase transition temperature T C , the macroscopic and local properties of LGO crystals are characterized by a crossover from the fluctuation behavior to the classical behavior described in terms of the mean-field theory. The temperature dependence of the local order parameter for LGO: Cr crystals does not exhibit a crossover from the Ising behavior (β=0.31) to the classical behavior (β=0.5). This is explained by the defect nature of Cr3+ impurity centers, which weaken the spatial correlations in the LGO host crystal. The specific features of the critical properties of LGO: Cr3+ crystals are discussed within a microscopic model of structural phase transitions.
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Trubitsyn, M.P., Volnyanskii, M.D. & Kudzin, A.Y. The influence of chromium impurity centers on the critical properties of a weakly polar ferroelectric Li2Ge7O15 . Phys. Solid State 46, 1730–1736 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1799194
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