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@ARTICLE{Wei:903289,
      author       = {Wei, Xian-Kui and Prokhorenko, Sergei and Wang, Bingqing
                      and Liu, Zenghui and Xie, Yu-Juan and Nahas, Yousra and Jia,
                      Chun-Lin and Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E. and Mayer, Joachim
                      and Bellaiche, Laurent and Ye, Zuo-Guang},
      title        = {{F}erroelectric phase-transition frustration near a
                      tricritical composition point},
      journal      = {Nature Communications},
      volume       = {12},
      number       = {1},
      issn         = {2041-1723},
      address      = {[London]},
      publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group UK},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2021-04985},
      pages        = {5322},
      year         = {2021},
      abstract     = {Phase transition describes a mutational behavior of matter
                      states at a critical transition temperature or external
                      field. Despite the phase-transition orders are well sorted
                      by classic thermodynamic theory, ambiguous situations
                      interposed between the first- and second-order transitions
                      were exposed one after another. Here, we report discovery of
                      phase-transition frustration near a tricritical composition
                      point in ferroelectric Pb(Zr1-xTix)O3. Our multi-scale
                      transmission electron microscopy characterization reveals a
                      number of geometrically frustrated microstructure features
                      such as self-assembled hierarchical domain structure,
                      degeneracy of mesoscale domain tetragonality and decoupled
                      polarization-strain relationship. Associated with deviation
                      from the classic mean-field theory, dielectric critical
                      exponent anomalies and temperature dependent birefringence
                      data unveil that the frustrated transition order stems from
                      intricate competition of short-range polar orders and their
                      decoupling to long-range lattice deformation. With supports
                      from effective Hamiltonian Monte Carlo simulations, our
                      findings point out a potentially universal mechanism to
                      comprehend the abnormal critical phenomena occurring in
                      phase-transition materials.},
      cin          = {ER-C-2},
      ddc          = {500},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-2-20170209},
      pnm          = {5353 - Understanding the Structural and Functional Behavior
                      of Solid State Systems (POF4-535) / DFG project 390534769 -
                      EXC 2004: Materie und Licht für Quanteninformation (ML4Q)
                      (390534769)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5353 / G:(GEPRIS)390534769},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {34493734},
      UT           = {WOS:000694655700017},
      doi          = {10.1038/s41467-021-25543-1},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/903289},
}