Longrange Effect on the Curie Temperature of Ferroelectric Films.pdfVIP

1 Long-range Effect on the Curie 0 Temperature of Ferroelectric Films 0 2 c e D Dong-Lai Yao (a), Yin-Zhong Wu (a, b) 7 2 a. Department of Physics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215006, China ] b. Department of Physics, Changshu College, Changshu, 215500, China i c s - l r t m Zhen-Ya Li . t a CCAST(World Laboratory), P.O.Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China m - and Department of Physics, Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215006, China∗ d n o c [ 1 v 9 6 Abstract 4 2 In this paper, the Curie temperature of ferroelectric films is studied using spin- 1 1 1/2 transverse Ising model with long-range interaction within the framework of the 0 / t effective-field theory. The dependence of the Curie temperature on the thickness a m of the film, the surface interaction and the transverse field were investigated. It - d is assumed that the long-range interaction decays with the distance between the n o pseudo-spins as a power law. The dependence of the Curie temperature and the c : v critical transverse field on the long-range exponent are obtained. i X r a PACS:77.80B Keywords: Long-range interaction, Effective-field theory, Ferroelectric film. *mailing address in China E-mail: zyli@suda.edu.cn 1 I. Introduction The pseudo-spin theory based on the Ising model with a transverse field (TIM) was first introduced by de Gennes [1] to describe the phase transition in order-disorder type fe