Abstract:
The anomalous behavior of the Brillouin frequency shift omega of the soft acoustic mode for KH3(SeO3)(2) and KD3(SeO3)(2), and also the volume thermal expansion proportional to(V) and the specific heat C of KH3(SeO3)(2) have been analyzed for various temperature intervals close to the phase transition temperatures TC at around 211 K and 302 K, respectively. Our extracted values of the critical exponent from C and proportional to(V) of KH3(SeO3)(2) within the temperature intervals of vertical bar T -T-C vertical bar < 7 K are nearly zero, while the critical exponent extracted from the Brillouin frequency shift data of both KH3(SeO3)(2) and KD3(SeO3)(2) within the same temperature interval of vertical bar T -T-C vertical bar < 7 K decrease very rapidly toward to zero as the phase transition temperatures are approached. Our results indicate that the critical behavior of omega, proportional to(V) and C of both KH3(SeO3)(2) and KD3(SeO3)(2) can be described with the same critical exponent within the temperature interval of vertical bar T -T-C vertical bar < 2 K.