Abstract
Diffuse maxima are revealed and studied for the first time in the x-ray scattering patterns of Hg2Br2 single crystals. These maxima originate from clusters of the orthorhombic phase due to the phase transition in the paraphase tetragonal matrix. The nucleation and growth of clusters are initiated by spatiotemporal fluctuations of the order parameter corresponding to the soft transverse acoustic mode at X points of the Brillouin zone boundary. Information on the behavior of the susceptibility and correlation length with variations in temperature and on the shape and anisotropy of the clusters is obtained, and the critical exponents are determined.
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