{"paper":{"title":"Polarization Dependence of Born Effective Charge and Dielectric Constant in KNbO$_3$","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.soft","authors_text":"Cheng-Zhang Wang, Henry Krakauer, Rici Yu","submitted_at":"1996-10-15T22:09:33Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Born effective charge Z^{*} and dielectric tensor \\epsilon_{\\infty} of KNbO_3 are found to be very sensitive to the atomic geometry, changing by as much as 27% between the paraelectric cubic and ferroelectric tetragonal and rhombohedral phases. Subtracting the bare ionic contribution reveals changes of the dynamic component of Z^{*} as large as 50%, for atomic displacements that are typically only a few percent of the lattice constant. Z^{*}, \\epsilon_{\\infty} and all phonon frequencies at the Brillouin zone center were calculated using the {\\it ab initio} linearized augmented plane-wave l"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"cond-mat/9610124","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}