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| Journal Article | DESY-2014-02519 |
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2014
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.094110 doi:10.3204/DESY-2014-02519
Abstract: Resonant x-ray diffraction was used to study the proton jumps in hydrogen-bonded rubidium dihydrogen phosphate (RDP) crystals. In the paraelectric RDP phase, hydrogen is delocalized between two crystallographically equivalent positions. At lower temperatures, this symmetry can be broken, which defines the processes that lead to the para- to ferroelectric phase transition. We have measured the energy spectra of the forbidden reflections 006 and 550 at incident radiation energies close to the Rb K edge in a wide temperature range, down to the temperature of the ferroelectric phase transition. In the paraelectric phase, we observed a growth of integrated intensity for both forbidden reflections with temperature. This behavior is opposite to conventional nonresonant Bragg reflections, where intensity decreases in accordance with the Debye-Waller factor. The developed theoretical model explains this effect with the thermal motion induced (TMI) scattering mechanism and also confirms the adiabatic approximation stating that electrons instantly follow the nuclei movements. In the 550 energy spectra, we have observed an additional contribution to the resonant structure factor, which could be associated with the presence of transient Slater-type proton configurations (PC) in the half-filled hydrogen position.
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