Brillouin light scattering anomalies and new phase transition in Cs5H3(SO4)4 crystals
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2000
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The behavior of hypersonic longitudinal acoustic phonons at temperatures ranging from 290 to 370 K in a crystal of Cs5H3(SO4)4·nH2O was studied by Brillouin light scattering. Anomalies in the temperature dependences of the frequency shift and spectral width of the Brillouin components in the vicinity of T=360K were observed. We found a “point of isotropization” near 360 K where C11=C33=2.6X10 10 N/m2 We attribute it to an isostructural phase transition from P63/mmc⇔P63/mmc where the apparent acoustic symmetry changes from hexagonal to cubic. Possible models for the phase transition have been discussed.
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S.G. Lushnikov, V.H. Schmidt, L.A. Shuvalov, and V.V. Dolbinina, “Brillouin light scattering anomalies and new phase transition in Cs5H3(SO4)4 crystals,” Solid State Commun. 113, 639-642 (2000).