Title: Temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity in incommensurately modulated phase of ammonium fluoroberyllate
Author(s):

	B. I. Horon (General Physics Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 23 Drahomanov Street, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine; Optoelectronics and Information Technologies Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 107 gen. Tarnavskyi Street, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine),
	O. S. Kushnir (Optoelectronics and Information Technologies Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 107 gen. Tarnavskyi Street, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine),
	P. A. Shchepanskyi (General Physics Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 23 Drahomanov Street, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine),
	V. Yo. Stadnyk (General Physics Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 23 Drahomanov Street, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine)

We study the temperature dependence of dielectric permittivity along the polar axis for ferroelectric ammonium fluoroberyllate (AFB) crystal in the vicinity of its phase transition points. The experimental data within incommensurately modulated phase of AFB is compared with the predictions of phenomenological models known from the literature: the Curie-Weiss (CW) law, the generalized Curie-Weiss (GCW) law, and the models by Levanyuk and Sannikov (LS) and by Prelovšek, Levstik and Filipič (PLF) suggested for improper ferroelectrics. It is shown that the LS approach describes the temperature behavior of the dielectric permittivity for the AFB crystal better than the CW, GWC and PLF models. The main physical reasons of this situation are elucidated.

Key words: phase transitions, incommensurate phases, improper ferroelectrics, dielectric permittivity, ammonium fluoroberyllate

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