Dipolar Reorientation and Phase Transitions in Mixed Alkali-Halide-Alkali-Cyanide Crystals

24 December 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 53 (26), 2489-2492
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.2489

Abstract

We show that the results of Lüty and Ortiz-Lopez relating the cyanide reorientation rates to the high-temperature phase diagrams of alkali-halide-alkali-cyanide mixed crystals can be understood within simple mean-field theory.

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