First-principles study of spontaneous polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3
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J. B. Neaton,1,* C. Ederer,2 U. V. Waghmare,3 N. A. Spaldin,2 and K. M. Rabe1 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019, USA 2Materials Research Laboratory and Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 3Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore 560 064, India sReceived 26 July 2004; revised manuscript received 10 November 2004; published 26 January 2005d
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