First-principles lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of pre-perovskite PbTiO3

First-principles lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of pre-perovskite PbTiO3

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Accepted Manuscript First-principles lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of pre-perovskite PbTiO3 Meng-Jun Zhou, Yi Wang, Yanzhou Ji, Zi-Kui Liu, Long-Qing Chen, Ce-Wen Nan PII:

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.04.008

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First-principles lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of pre-perovskite PbTiO3

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Meng-Jun Zhou1,2, Yi Wang2,*, Yanzhou Ji2, Zi-Kui Liu2, Long-Qing Chen2,*, Ce-Wen Nan1,* 1

School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine

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Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 2

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University,

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University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States Abstract

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It was recently found that nanowires of PbTiO3 synthesized through an intermediate pre-

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perovskite phase exhibit enhanced spontaneous polarization. Here we investigated the pre-

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perovskite PbTiO3 (PP-PTO) nanowire phase at finite temperatures employing first-principles

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quasiharmonic calculations. We calculated its band gap, phonon dispersions, phonon density of

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states, Debye temperature, and thermodynamic properties. The corresponding calculations for

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cubic and tetragonal PbTiO3 were also carried out for comparison. In the current calculations, the

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amount of imaginary frequencies associated with the ideal cubic PTO structure, i.e., a cubic cell

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shape with ion positions at the ideal cubic perovskite lattice sites, was decreased to a negligible

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level by employing a constrained cubic structure, a structure with the same cubic cell shape as

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the ideal cubic PTO structure but allowing the ion positions to relax to thermodynamically more

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stable tetragonal positions at 0 K. In contrast to the general observation that a higher volume

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phase would have relatively higher entropy, it is found that the PP-PTO phase possesses the

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lowest entropy while having the largest volume compared to cubic and tetragonal PbTiO3 phases.

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Furthermore, the temperature-pressure phase diagram for the three PbTiO3 phases was obtained,

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which demonstrates that PP-PTO could be stabilized under a large volume or a negative pressure.

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This study provides insights to experimentally synthesizing the PP-PTO phase and to better

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understanding its phase transition into the converted tetragonal PbTiO3 nanowires with enhanced

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piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties.

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Key words: Pre-perovskite PbTiO3 (PP-PTO); First-principles calculations; lattice dynamics;

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phase diagram

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[email protected] (Ce-Wen Nan)

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Corresponding authors: [email protected] (Yi Wang), [email protected] (Long-Qing Chen) and

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Lead titanate (PbTiO3, PTO) is a benchmark ferroelectric insulator. The phase transition

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between its two known perovskite structures, i.e., the ferroelectric tetragonal phase PbTiO3 (TP-

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PTO) and the para-electric cubic phase PbTiO3 (CP-PTO) [1], has been considered as a classical

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example to understand structural and ferroelectric phase transitions in perovskites [2–7].

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Recently, a metastable PTO phase, referred to the pre-perovskite phase for PbTiO3 (PP-PTO),

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was synthesized by a hydrothermal method in the form of nanowires [8,9]. In addition, the PP

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nanowires can be synthesized by doping Zr (0%-15%) [10,11] and Ba (0%-15%) [12]. It was

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noted that this new phase has the same structure as the PX phase discovered by Cheng et al [13]

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in the form of powders, and was reported to transform into the TP-PTO phase after being

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annealed at temperatures higher than 350 °C [8,14]. Interestingly, this transformation would lead

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to the TP-PTO nanowires with enhanced ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties, e.g., an

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increased tetragonality (c/a - 1) as high as 0.13, a doubling of spontaneous polarization to ~ 160

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µC/cm2, an increase of Curie temperature by 40 °C and piezoelectric constant d33 by 20 pm/V

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[11,15]. Zero thermal expansion was also observed in the TP-PTO nanowires converted from

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PP-PTO [16].

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The three-dimensional CP-PTO and TP-PTO perovskite structures, as shown in Fig. 1(a) and

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Fig. 1(b), are characterized by the corner-shared TiO6 octahedra: macroscopically, the Ti atoms

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of CP-PTO are located at the center of the TiO6 octahedra with displacements along the c-axis in

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TP-PTO [17]. In comparison, the octahedra in PP-PTO are connected by sharing their edges and

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packed along the c-axis in an interlaced manner to form a one-dimensional column [8] as shown

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in Fig. 1(c) and Fig. 1(d).

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Existing first-principles calculations [18–21] of PP-PTO were mostly carried out to

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investigate its vibrational stability and other mechanical properties at 0 K. In this work, we focus

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on the phase stability of PP-PTO with respect to the stable PTO phases at finite temperatures and

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pressures. Systematic first-principles quasiharmonic calculations were carried out to investigate

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the lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of the PP-PTO phase together with the cubic

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and tetragonal PbTiO3. The predicted thermodynamic properties and pressure-temperature phase

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diagram for the three types of PbTiO3 confirmed the preferable formation of PP-PTO under a

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negative pressure (or a large volume), which could provide feasible strategies for the

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experimental fabrication of the PP-PTO phase and obtaining the converted TP-PTO nanowires

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from PP-PTO.

2. Method

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To determine the phase equilibria of PP-PTO, we first compute the Helmholtz free energy F

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using first-principles calculations which can be decomposed into the sum of the static energy

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Estatic, the lattice vibrational free energy Fvib, and the thermal electron free energy Felec induced

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by the thermal electronic excitation [22–27]

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F (T ,V ) = Estatic (V ) + Fvib (T , V ) + Felec (T ,V )

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where T is temperature and V is volume. Based on phonon theory, Fvib can be written as [28]

  ℏω  Fvib (T ,V ) = kBT ∫ ln 2sinh   g(ω,V )dω , 2 k T   B  

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where ℏ is the reduced Planck’s constant, kB is the Boltzmann constant, and g ( ω , V ) represents

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the phonon density-of-states (PDOS). Since the electronic contribution for semiconductors and

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insulators is not important, Felec is ignored in the present calculations. The vibrabtional entropy

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Svib and heat capacity Cvib can be calculated by:

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In the present work, the Helmholtz free energy is calculated as a function of volume. Then the results are fitted using the modified Birch-Murnaghan equation of states [29,30],

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∞ ( ℏω / k T ) Svib (T,V ) = kB ∫  ℏω/kBT B − ln 1− e−ℏω/kBT 0 −1 e

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F (T ,V ) = a + bV −2/3 + cV −4/3 + dV −2 + eV −8/3 .

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Thus, the equilibrium volume Veq at zero pressure and specific temperature can be obtained

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 ∂F (T,V )  −  = 0.  ∂V T

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Thermodynamic properties including bulk modulus BT, Debye temperature

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expansion coefficient α can be calculated following the Eqs. (7) - (9):

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 T  Cvib,Debye (T ) = 9kB    ΘD (T ) 

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1  ∂Veq (T)    , 3Veq (T)  ∂T P

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where the Debye temperature ΘD in Eq. (8), can be calculated by fitting the calculated Cvib in Eq.

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All calculations were carried out by the projector-augmented wave (PAW) method [31,32]

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implemented in the Vienna ab initio simulation package (VASP, version 5.4.1). Following

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previous experiences, the local density approximation (LDA) for exchange-correlation function

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[5,33,34] is usually more suitable for oxides while the generalized gradient approximation (GGA)

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is more appropriate for metals [35]. We employed the quasiharmonic approximation, and all

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VASP calculations were performed at 11 different volumes with an increment rate of 6%. To

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ensure the efficiency of calculation, the primitive unit cell of PP-PTO containing 20 atoms was

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considered [18]. For the crystal structure relaxation [36], the Γ-centered k-point mesh of 3×3×6

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was adopted with the default cutoff energy of 400 eV. A conjugate gradient method was used to

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optimize the lattice parameters and atomic coordinates and minimize the Hellmann-Feynman

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Forces and stress tensor components. The change of total free energy was converged to 10-8 eV

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per cell, and all the forces were relaxed to at least 10-4 eVÅ-1. After crystal relaxation, a k-point

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mesh of 6×6×12 and a cut off energy of 520 eV were set for high accuracy static calculations.

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The lattice dynamics and properties of CP-PTO and TP-PTO were also calculated for

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comparison. For TP-PTO and CP-PTO, the unit cell containing five atoms was considered.

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YPHON package [37–39] which adopted the small displacement approach (supercell method)

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was used for calculating phonon dispersion and thermal properties, considering both plus and

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minus displacements by default. A 3×3×3 k-point mesh and a 2×2×2 supercell of the primitive

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cell were considered in our phonon calculations for the three phases. Since the primitive unit cell

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of PP-PTO already contains 20 atoms, supercells larger than the 2×2×2 supercell for PP-PTO are

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computationally prohibitive. Therefore, we employed a 2×2×2 supercell for all the three

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compounds in our calculations. We tested the effect of supercell size on the amount of imaginary

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phonon frequencies for CP-PTO since the unit cell of CP-PTO only contains 5 atoms. As we

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increased the supercell size from 2×2×2 to 4×4×4, no significant changes were observed for the

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phonon dispersions and the amount of the imaginary phonon frequencies.

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3.1 Static energy and electronic density of states

The calculated lattice constants and atomic coordinates of PP-PTO at the 0 K static

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equilibrium volume are collected in Table 1, which are in good agreement with the results from

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Neutron diffraction [8]. The static energy-volume curves for the three perovskites at 0 K are

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plotted in Fig. 2(a). It shows that PP-PTO has the highest static energy at its equilibrium volume

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among the three phases, which is 0.20 eV (∆EPP-TP) per formula unit and 0.14 eV (∆EPP-CP) per

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formula unit higher than those of TP-PTO and CP-PTO, respectively. The equilibrium volume

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for PP-PTO is much larger than those of TP- and CP-PTO. ∆EPP-TP and ∆EPP-CP are a little higher

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than those reported by Wang et al. [19] and Liu et al. [18], perhaps due to the usage of different

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pseudo-potentials and software packages for first principles calculations. The total and atomic

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electronic density-of-states (EDOS) for PP-PTO, TP-PTO and CP-PTO are given in Fig. 2(b). It

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shows that the band gaps for PP-, TP- and CP-PTO are 1.96 eV, 1.30 eV and 1.62 eV,

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respectively. These calculated band gaps are comparable to those from previous calculations

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The vibrational contribution to free energy plays the major role in dictating the relative

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thermodynamic stability of a compound at finite temperatures [41]. Fig. 3(a) and Fig. 3(c) show

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the partial PDOS due to the individual atoms for PP- and TP-PTO, respectively. It is

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demonstrated that in both PP- and TP-PTO, the Pb atoms only contribute to the low frequency

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region of <5 THz due to the large atomic mass. Compared with TP-PTO, the contributions of the

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Ti atoms to the frequency regions ranging from 18 THz to 22 THz and from 23 THz to 25 THz

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are more prominent in PP-PTO. In addition, it seems that the vibrational modes of Ti and O in

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PP-PTO are stronger than those in TP-PTO, indicating that the bonding between the Ti atoms

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and the O atoms in PP-PTO is more complicated.

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In addition, Fig. 3(b) and Fig. 3(d) show the calculated total PDOS and the generalized

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phonon density-of-states (GPDOS) [42] of PP-PTO and TP-PTO. The total PDOS is the simple

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summation of contributions from Pb, Ti and O atoms. Note that usually for compounds, PDOS

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cannot be measured directly through experiments, in which case the measured data mostly refer

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to the neutron scattering cross section weighted PDOS, i.e., GPDOS. The GPDOS for PP-PTO

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element, respectively; pDOSi represents the projected partial PDOS for individual atoms. Since

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the Pb atoms possess the largest atomic mass, their contributions to the GPDOS are much weaker

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than the Ti and O atoms. The calculation of the PDOS is for the purpose of evaluating the free energy which normally

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does not allow imaginary phonon modes. However, for the high temperature CP-PTO phase,

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when the ideal cubic perovskite structure is employed, the calculated PDOS for the CP-PTO

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phase shows a significant amount of imaginary phonon modes [43]. It is noted that the more the

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amount of the imaginary phonon modes is, the higher the uncertainty of the calculated free

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energy becomes. To circumvent this difficulty, we performed a calculation using a structure

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defined as the constrained cubic PTO structure to calculate the phonon density-of-states for CP-

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PTO. The constrained cubic PTO structure is obtained by keeping the cell shape of the ideal

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cubic PTO structure while the internal atomic coordinates are allowed to relax as those of TP-

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PTO, i.e., allowing all atoms to relax from their ideal cubic positions under the constraint of the

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cubic cell shape. The idea of constrained calculation for CP-PTO is inspired from the X-ray

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absorption fine-structure (XAFS) measurements [44,45] for PbTiO3 and BaTiO3 that showed

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disorder of local distortions. In particular for PbTiO3, XAFS measurement of Sicron et al.[44]

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pointed out that the Ti atoms can be displaced relative to the oxygen octahedra cage center both

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below and above the transition temperature. The calculated partial PDOS, total PDOS and

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GPDOS based on the constrained cubic PTO structure are illustrated in Fig. 4(a) and Fig. 4(b).

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The amount of imaginary modes is significantly reduced when compared with those calculated

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using the ideal CP-PTO structure as shown in Fig. 4(c) and Fig. 4(d). Specifically, the amount of

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imaginary phonon modes in the total phonon density-of-states has been decreased from 6.46% to

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0.46% when the constrained structure is employed instead of the ideal cubic structure.

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To our best knowledge, no theoretical and experimental results have been reported on the

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complete phonon spectrum for PP-PTO. Fig. 5 shows the calculated phonon dispersions for the

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PP-PTO, TP-PTO, the ideal and the constrained cubic PTO structures. Phonon dispersion

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represents the one-dimensional evolution of phonon frequency along the high symmetry

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directions in the wave vector space. In Fig. 5(a), the phonon modes at Γ point for PP-PTO are

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classified into 43 phonon modes, i.e., 25 Raman-active modes including 10 Ag, 10 Bg and 5 Eg;

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13 IR-active modes including 9 Eu and 4 Au; and 5 Bu optically silent modes. Table 2 lists the

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calculated phonon frequencies for the total 43 phonon modes at the Γ point of PP-PTO. The

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experimental data by Raman scattering for PP-PTO in references [19,20] are represented by the

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hollow dots in Fig. 5(a), which are in good agreement with the calculated results. According to

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the phonon dispersion for TP-PTO in Fig. 5(b), the calculated results for TP-PTO are consistent

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with the experimental data (marked by the hollow dots) [46,47]. No imaginary phonon modes

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were found for either PP-PTO or TP-PTO, which indicates that PP-PTO and TP-PTO are

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vibrationally stable at 0 K. Knowing the fact that the static energy (discussed in Section 3.1) at 0

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K for PP-PTO is much higher than that for TP-PTO, it can be concluded that PP-PTO is a

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metastable phase at 0 K. The findings explain the experimentally verified phase transition

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process during heating treatment in which the PP-PTO transforms to the CP-PTO as temperature

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increases from 25 °C to 700 °C, and when the CP-PTO is cooled back down to 25 °C, it becomes

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the TP-PTO rather than the original PP-PTO [8,11,14,15].

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Figure 5(c) and Fig. 5(d) show the phonon dispersions calculated using the ideal and

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constrained cubic PTO structures, respectively. The ideal cubic PTO structure exhibits imaginary

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phonon frequencies at Γ, M and P points, and the largest imaginary phonon frequency is about -4

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THz while the constrained cubic PTO structure exhibits imaginary phonon frequency only at Γ

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point, with a value of about -1 THz. In contrast to the ideal cubic PTO structure, there are very

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few imaginary phonon modes for the calculated result using the constrained cubic PTO structure.

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Since the electron excitation free energy is ignored due to the insulating nature of all PTO

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considered in this work, the calculated entropy S is the vibrational entropy as defined in Eq. (3).

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Fig. 6(a) shows the variation of entropy with temperature ranging from 0 K to 1200 K for PP-

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PTO, TP-PTO and CP-PTO. Among these three phases, PP-PTO possesses the lowest entropy

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while CP-PTO has the highest. This result is beyond conventional thought by which it was

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anticipated that a large volume phase (the PP-PTO phase has the largest volume in the present

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case) would have relatively high entropy. This can be attributed to the change of the low

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frequency vibrational mode distribution due to the change of the Pb-O bonds from TP-PTO to

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PP-PTO. As shown in Fig. 3, the PDOS values near 2 THz (due to Pb) and 15 THz (due to O) are

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quite different between PP-PTO and TP-PTO; this difference further leads to less contribution of

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these phonon vibration frequencies to the entropy of PP-PTO by the frequency-dependent

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THz are the reasons for the lower entropy of PP-PTO at 500 K.

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where P is pressure. Figure 6(b) plots the Gibbs free energies as a function of temperature at P = 0 for the three

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phases. The Gibbs free energies all show a continuous decrease with the increase of temperature

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from 0 K to 1200 K since the contribution of the negative term −TS becomes more dominant as

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temperature increases. The Gibbs free energy of PP-PTO ranks the highest among these three

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within the considered temperature range. Based on the calculations, there will be an intersection

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located at 960 K between the curves of TP-PTO and CP-PTO. This calculated phase transition

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temperature between TP-PTO and CP-PTO is higher than the reported experimental values of

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763 K [48,49], probably due to the underestimation of the entropy of the constrained CP-PTO

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TP-PTO and CP-PTO at 0 K and room temperature 300 K. Compared with the calculated values

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at 0 K, the energy differences ∆GPP-CP and ∆GPP-TP nearly remain the same at 300 K. Specifically,

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the energy difference ∆GPP-TP changes from 0.21 eV/f.u. to 0.22 eV/f.u. while ∆GPP-CP changes

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from 0.16 eV/f.u. to 0.18 eV/f.u.. Bulk moduli for these three perovskites are calculated by Eq.

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(7). Bulk modulus indicates the resistance of a material to the uniform compression. According

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to the calculated results, PP-PTO is the easiest to be compressed while CP-PTO is the hardest

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one. The absence of decrease in the bulk modulus for TP-PTO from 0 to 300 K is due to the

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calculated nearly zero thermal expansion coefficient within this temperature range, which agrees

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the differences in the Debye temperatures for these three perovskites are very small as seen in

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Fig. 7(a). The values of thermal expansion coefficients plotted in Fig. 7(b) indicate that the

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calculated region from 0 K to 1200 K. The change of thermal expansion for these three phases is

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not so significant when the temperature is higher than room temperature, since the slopes of

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theses curves are quite flat when T>300 K. It should be noted that the calculation predicts a

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negative expansion for TP-PTO structures in the temperature range from 30 K to 150 K. The

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experimental results on TP-PTO nanoplates from Ren et. al also showed a typical negative

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thermal expansion with a thermal expansion coefficient of -1.92×10-5 K-1 from 293 K to 573 K

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[16]. Previous studies [5,16,50,51] have also demonstrated that the origin of the negative thermal

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expansion in TP-PTO is closely related to the ferroelectric transition between TP-PTO and CP-

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PTO, which corresponds to the two-phase equilibrium line with a negative slope in the

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temperature-pressure phase diagram.

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Besides the effect of temperature, the influence of pressure on the Gibbs free energies for

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PP-PTO, TP-PTO and CP-PTO are also studied in this work. Following Eq. (12), Gibbs free

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energies at different temperatures and pressures can be obtained. The most stable phase is

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defined as the phase with the minimum Gibbs free energy at given temperature and pressure. Fig.

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temperature and pressure cover from 0 K to 1500 K and from -2.5 GPa to 2.5 GPa, respectively.

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At the bottom of the phase diagram, where the pressure is from -1.6 GPa to -2.5 GPa, PP-PTO is

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the most stable phase. On the left top of the PP-PTO phase, it is TP-PTO. Next to the TP-PTO

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1.6 GPa, which is comparable to the calculated value of 1.4 GPa by Liu et al. [18]. This

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experimental data point is marked with the red-and-blue circular point in Fig. 8. The

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experimental data in Ref. [48] are also marked in Fig. 8. Most of the data are in good agreement

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with the present calculation except for a slight difference for the transition temperature from CP-

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temperature-pressure space is important in studying the phase stability of PP-PTO. The presence

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of PP-PTO under a negative pressure or a high volume proposes the possible strategies for

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effectively synthesizing the PP-PTO phase. Interphase strain recently proposed by Zhang et.al

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A systematic investigation of lattice dynamics for the PP-PTO structure is performed based

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on first-principles quasiharmonic approach. A novel methodology is presented to reduce the

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amount of soft modes in the calculation of phonon density-of-states. The influences of

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temperature and pressure on phase stability and thermodynamic properties of PP-PTO were

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Acknowledgements The author M. J. Zhou gratefully acknowledges the financial support from China

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Scholarship Council (No 201706210108). This work was partially supported by the NSF of

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Fig. 1. Projections of crystal structures of (a) CP-PTO (Space group Pm3m ഥ ), (b) TP-PTO (Space

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group P4mm), and (c) PP-PTO (Space group I4/m) along the a-axis; (d) PP-PTO along the c-axis.

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Fig. 2. (a) Calculated static energy for PP-PTO, TP-PTO and CP-PTO; and (b) corresponding

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electronic density-of-states (the solid, long dashed, short dashed, and dot-dashed lines represent

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the total, Pb, Ti, and O contribution to the EDOS, respectively).

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Fig. 3. (a), (b) Calculated partial, total and generalized phonon density-of-states (PDOS) for PP-

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PTO; and (c), (d) Calculated partial, total and generalized phonon density-of-states for TP-PTO.

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Fig. 4. (a), (b) Calculated partial, total and generalized phonon density-of-states for the

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constrained cubic PTO structure; and (c), (d) Calculated partial, total and generalized phonon

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density-of-states for the ideal cubic PTO structure. (The constrained cubic PTO structure adopts

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the lattice constants of the ideal cubic PTO structure with the internal atomic coordinates being

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allowed to relax as those of TP-PTO.)

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Fig. 5. Calculated phonon dispersion of (a) PP-PTO, (b) TP-PTO, (c) the ideal cubic PTO

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structure, and (d) the constrained cubic PTO structure along the selected principal symmetry

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directions. (Blue hollow points: ref. [19]; green hollow points: ref. [20]; magenta hollow points:

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ref. [46]; red hollow points: ref. [47].)

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Fig. 6. (a) Calculated entropy, and (b) Gibbs free energy as a function of temperature for PP-

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Table 2: Calculated phonon frequencies at the Γ point for PP-PTO

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x

y

z

x

y

z

Pb

0.161

0.151

0.5

0.165

0.151

0.5

Ti

0.470

0.143

0.5

0.471

0.142

0.5

O1

0.605

0.027

0.5

0.605

0.028

0.5

O2

0.166

0.288

0.0

0.169

0.289

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O3

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0.265

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THz

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1

Sym

THz

(cm-1)

9 Eu Modes (IR active)

25.9081

(864.20)

0

Eu

23.7522

(792.29)

Ag

19.0225

(634.52)

1

Eu

19.4970

(650.35)

2

Ag

14.5517

(485.39)

2

Eu

12.5981

(420.23)

3

Ag

11.9404

(398.29)

3

Eu

11.3287

(377.88)

4

Ag

8.3986

(280.15)

4

Eu

10.8704

(362.60)

5

Ag

7.8379

(261.45)

5

Eu

7.6321

(254.58)

6

Ag

5.7355

(191.31)

6

Eu

5.9574

(198.72)

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Ag

5.2023

(173.53)

7

Eu

4.024

(134.23)

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(107.45)

9

Ag

1.8314

(61.09)

10 Bg Modes (Raman active)

8

Eu

1.9827

(66.14)

4 Au Modes (IR active)

Bg

23.8081

(794.15)

0

Au

15.0737

(502.81)

1

Bg

20.9799

(699.81)

1

Au

9.2764

(309.43)

2

Bg

13.3511

(445.35)

2

Au

6.6266

(221.04)

3 4 5

Bg Bg Bg

12.3043 11.3077 7.7745

(410.43) (377.19) (259.33)

3

Au

2.2444

(74.86)

6

Bg

6.8289

(227.79)

0

Bu

20.1405

(671.82)

7

Bg

5.2077

(173.71)

1

Bu

9.5517

(318.61)

8

Bg

3.1799

(106.07)

2

Bu

7.1807

(239.52)

9

Bg

1.788

(59.64)

3 4

Bu Bu

5.8358 1.0022

(194.66) (33.43)

Eg

17.6166

1

Eg

8.9472

2

Eg

8.2887

3

Eg

5.7436

4

Eg

1.366

(298.45) (276.48)

(191.59) (45.56)

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(eV/f.u.)

Lattice constant* (Å)

Bulk modulus (GPa)

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Gibbs free energy*

300 K

0K

300 K

0K

300 K

PP-PTO

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-41.46

a=12.208 c=3.768

a=12.240 c=3.770

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-41.49

-41.68

a=3.859 c=4.049

a = 3.860 c = 4.049

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-41.64

a=3.894

a=3.897

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