"Fraternal-twin” ferroelectricity: competing polar states in hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first principles

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        "givennames": "Michele", 
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          "Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland"
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        "email": "michele.kotiuga@epfl.ch", 
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      {
        "givennames": "Karin M.", 
        "affiliations": [
          "Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of NewJersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA"
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    "title": "\"Fraternal-twin\u201d ferroelectricity:  competing polar states in hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first principles", 
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      "Ferroelectricty", 
      "Rare-earth nickelates", 
      "Charge localization"
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        "comment": "Paper associated with the data", 
        "doi": "10.1088/1361-648X/ad5091", 
        "citation": "M. Kotiuga, K. M. Rabe, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 36, 355603 (2024)", 
        "url": "https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ad5091/meta", 
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      {
        "comment": "Preprint where the data is discussed", 
        "citation": "M. Kotiuga & K. M. Rabe, arXiv: 2007.01744", 
        "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01744", 
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    "description": "This work explores hydrogen-doped samarium nickelate from first-principles calculations. At a concentration of 1/4 hydrogen per formula unit we find a number of polar states due to the presence of the interstitial hydrogen. Physically, the polarization of the material arises from the localization of the hydrogen's valence electron on a nearby nickel-oxygen octahedron leading to a local dipole. Due to the inherent tilt pattern present in samarium nickelate, a perovskite with an a-a-c+ tilt pattern, there is an insurmountable energy barrier to switch a given polar state the structure related by inversion symmetry. Instead, we use an in-plane epitaxial constraint to tune the total energy of two structures to be equal. These two structures, unrelated by a cell-symmetry operation, have similar a similar position of the interstitial hydrogen atom, but the valence electron localizes on a different nickel-oxygen octahedron leading to different polarizations. We find that there is a surmountable energy barrier to switch between these two structures.", 
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