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