Abstract
Ferroelectricity in crystals is associated with the displacement of ions or rotations of polar units. Here we consider the dipole created by donor doping (D^{+}) and the corresponding bound polaron (e^{-}). A dipole of 6.15Debye is predicted, from Berry phase analysis, in the Ruddlesden-Popper phase of Sr_{3}Ti_{2}O_{7}. A characteristic double-well potential is formed, which persists for high doping densities. The effective Hubbard U interaction can vary the defect state from metallic, a two-dimensional polaron, through to a zero-dimensional polaron. The ferroelectriclike behavior reported here is localized and distinct from conventional spontaneous lattice polarization.
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