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Electric polarization

+. +. +. +. +. +. -. -. -. -. -. -. Electric polarization. How to define the electric polarization in a solid?. Compose of molecules:. Electric polarization cannot uniquely be defined from the charge distribution. For a covalent solid the problem is even more clear. d = 0.

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Electric polarization

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  1. + + + + + + - - - - - - Electric polarization How to define the electric polarization in a solid? Compose of molecules: Electric polarization cannot uniquely be defined from the charge distribution.

  2. For a covalent solid the problem is even more clear... d = 0 d > 0 d < 0

  3. Correct way: use currents Use the current instead of density R. Resta 1992: changes in the electric polarization can be unambiguously defined and calculated

  4. How to calculate polarization changes “Berry phase”

  5. Ionic contribution Of course, we have to add the contribution due the core of atoms or to the ions (i.e., core + core electrons):

  6. Equivalent formulation in terms of Wannier functions The centers of the Wanniers are defined modulo R with and, therefore, the polarization is defined modulo a “quantum” of polarization.

  7. Why is interesting to calculate ΔP ? *You can study ferroelectricity *You can calculate the dynamical or effective Born charges, Z *With Z you can calculate the IR absorption *With Z you can calculate the long-range part of the dynamical matrix and LO-TO splitting

  8. +2 e +4 e -2 e -2 e Dynamical charges in BaTiO3

  9. Critical thickness of ferroelectric thin films J. Junquera and P. Ghosez, Nature 422, 506 (2003)

  10. SIESTA INPUT PolarizationGrids: %block PolarizationGrids 10 4 4 4 10 4 4 4 10 %endblock PolarizationGrids

  11. SIESTA INPUT BornCharge .true. (together with MD.TypeOfRun = FC) The Born effective charge matrix is then written to the file SystemLabel.BC

  12. We aware of the ambiguous definition of the polarization in the numerical calculation…..

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