ON THE QUANTUM THEORY OF PYROELECTRICITY
ON THE QUANTUM THEORY OF PYROELECTRICITY
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DOI:
10.1103/revmodphys.17.245
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发表时间:
1945-01-01
影响因子:
44.1
通讯作者:
BORN, M
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作者:
BORN, M
&~ which I have to offer for the special issue of this journal dedicated to Professor Bohr. The problem is quite out ofdate but nevertheless it was unsolved until recently. It concerns the dependence on temperature of the pyroelectric moment. An elementary theory of this eRect was given by Boguslawski'in I914 with the help of an Einstein model of a crystal, namely, a set of independent linear oscillators. Asin the first theories of thermal expansion, these oscillators were assumed to be non-harmonic; then the mean amplitude of vibration is not symmetrical about the equilibrium, and this asymmetry increases with temperature. If the oscillators are charged particles and the crystal lattice of suAi-ciently low symmetry so that the eRects of the asymmetry of the single oscillators do not cancel, an electric moment depending on temperature T is produced. Boguslawski found the same function of T as that representing thermal energy and thermal expansion, hence for low temperatures a T'-law. Careful experiments were carried out by Ackermann'in 1915 down to T= 23'K.A discussion of his results by 8oguslaw ski showed that although. the theoretical curve represents the observations fairly well over a large interval of temperature there are marked deviations for the lowest temperatures. Bogus-lawski found that a T'-law gives much better agreement with the observations than his theoretical T'-law.