Possible ferroic properties of copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite

2023/08/07 by J. Hlinka, Hlinka, Jiri
Materials Science · #Crystal Structures and Properties #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.03691

openalex publication_date 2023/08/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Paper provides symmetry arguments explaining that charge density wave induced by copper doping to lead phosphate apatite crystal implies a symmetry breaking phase transition from P6₃/m (176) to a polar and chiral phase with P6₃ (173) spacegroup symmetry.

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