Abstract :
[en] We present a method to compute the temperature dependence of the refractive indices and electro-optic coefficients of ferroelectrics from a first-principles effective Hamiltonian and apply it to BaTiO3 in its tetragonal phase. We show that the effective Hamiltonian is a valid approach to study optical properties. We compare our formalism with the model of DiDomenico and Wemple and justify why the latter was successful, although its basic assumption is not met in practice.
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