Local structure in the paraelectric phase of Cd2 Nb2 O7 determined from x-ray diffuse scattering, by means of ab initio molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo modeling

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Paściak, Marek ^a,b   Wołcyrz, Marek ^a   Pietraszko, Adam ^a   Leoni, Stefano ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF LOW TEMPERATURE AND STRUCTURE RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

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EID: 77954810175     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.014107     Document Type: Article

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