Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2587–2590 (1995)Competing Structural Instabilities in Cubic PerovskitesReceived 17 November 1994; published in the issue dated 27 March 1995 We study the antiferrodistortive instability and its interaction with ferroelectricity in cubic perovskite compounds. Our first-principles calculations show that coexistence of both instabilities is very common. We develop a first-principles scheme to study the thermodynamics of these compounds when both instabilities are present, and apply it to SrTiO3. We find that increased pressure enhances the antiferrodistortive instability while suppressing the ferroelectric one. Moreover, the presence of one instability tends to suppress the other. A very rich P- T phase diagram results. © 1995 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2587
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2587
PACS:
77.80.Bh, 61.50.Lt, 64.60.Cn, 64.70.-p
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