Dynamic Disorder in Perovskites: Local Symmetry Breaking at the Sr Site in SrTiO3 |
R. Blinca, B. Zalara, V.V. Lagutaa,b and A. Zidanšeka
aJ. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia bInstitute for Material Science, Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine |
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Received: 24 04 2005; |
A-site symmetry breaking in the macroscopically cubic paraelectric phase of SrTiO3 was observed by quadrupole perturbed 87Sr NMR. The local symmetry breaking at the A (Sr) site is connected with slow and biased disorder dynamics similarly as at the B (Ti) site. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.108.7 PACS numbers:77.84.Dy, 76.60.-k |