A ferroelectric-like structural transition in a metal

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1024-1027

  Shi, Youguo ^a,b   Guo, Yanfeng ^a,c   Wang, Xia ^a   Princep, Andrew J ^c   Khalyavin, Dmitry ^d   Manuel, Pascal ^d   Michiue, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Akira ^a   Tsuda, Kenji ^e   Yu, Shan ^a   Arai, Masao ^a   Shirako, Yuichi ^f   Akaogi, Masaki ^f   Wang, Nanlin ^b   Yamaura, Kazunari ^a   Boothroyd, Andrew T ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROSYMMETRIC; CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; FERROELECTRIC TRANSITION; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; METALLIC STATE; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC; NORMAL METALS; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; METALS; STRUCTURAL METALS;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 84886256368     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3754     Document Type: Article

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