Sliding, breathing, and bulk phonon modes in ferroelectrics

Here I tried to analiticaly reproduce the phonon spectral function (Fig. 4d) of a 1D-chain model showing some elementary ferroelectric domain wall modes (the nondispersive sliding mode at the lowest energy, the breathing mode at a higher energy, and the dispersive bulk phonon branch) of [Sci. Adv. 3, e1602371 (2017)].

The figure is attained by a matlab script with manually adjusted parameters. The smearing is just for the convenience of the eyes.

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