stishovite under high pressure: Dielectric and dynamical properties and the ferroelastic phase transition
- 15 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 56 (12), 7321-7330
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.56.7321
Abstract
The pressure dependence of the dielectric and dynamical properties of stishovite and its pressure-induced ferroelastic phase transition to the structure are investigated using density-functional theory. The pressure dependence of the dielectric permittivity tensors and the Born effective charges shows that the local atomic environments in stishovite, more compressible along the axis than along the axis, become less anisotropic as pressure increases. The phonon frequencies at the Γ point increase with increasing pressure, except the mode. The phonon band structure at 73 GPa, the study of elastic constants as a function of pressure, and the structural relaxation at various pressure provide evidence for spontaneous elastic deformation, i.e., a ferroelastic phase transition at 64 GPa of stishovite in the tetragonal rutile structure to the orthorhombic structure. The on-site and interatomic force constants are found to be consistent with the predicted structural phase transition. The dielectric properties and the phonon frequencies at the Γ point are also computed in the structure.
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