Title: Major physical characteristics of Rochelle salt: the role of thermal strains
Author(s):

A.P. Moina (Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii Str., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine)

We compare the results for the related to the shear strain ε₄ physical characteristics of Rochelle salt obtained within the recently developed modified two-sublattice Mitsui model that takes into account the strain ε₄ and the diagonal components of the strain tensor ε₁, ε₂, ε₃ with the results of the previous modification of the Mitsui model with the strain ε₄ only. Within the framework of the model with the diagonal (thermal expansion) strains, we also reexamine the effects of the longitudinal electric field E₁ on the dielectric properties of Rochelle salt.

Key words: Rochelle salt, thermal expansion, Mitsui model, strains, bias field
PACS: 65.40.De, 77.65.Bn, 77.22.Gm, 77.22.Ch

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