Abstract
Acceptor doped barium cerate dissolves significant amounts of water thus forming protonic defects. High proton mobility is generally considered to depend strongly on the dynamics of the proton environment. In this paper numerical results using quantum molecular dynamics simulations are presented to study the dynamics of the BaCeO 3 host lattice. At elevated temperatures O-Ce-O bending modes mainly determine the oxygen separation coordinate Q which is considered to be responsible for modulating the proton transfer potential. It is also anticipated that this frequency coincides with the attempt frequency for proton conduction. For low proton excitations the dynamics of the proton is found to be part of a hydroxide ion rotating around the oxygen atom in the plane perpendicular to the Ce-O-Ce axis.
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