Antiferroelectric hysteresis loops with two exchange constants using the two dimensional Ising model

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Misirlioglu, I B ^a   Pintilie, L ^a,b   Boldyreva, K ^a   Alexe, M ^a   Hesse, D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROELECTRICITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAMILTONIANS; ISING MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANTIFERROELECTRIC HYSTERESIS LOOPS; INTRINSIC HAMILTONIAN; PSEUDOSPIN INTERACTIONS;

HYSTERESIS;

EID: 36248980828     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2814059     Document Type: Article

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