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Effects of the phase transition between the high-temperature tetragonal phases of the CsScF4 crystal were studied by Raman scattering. The appearance of new lines including a soft mode was observed below the phase transition point, in complete accordance with the new crystal symmetry. The behavior of the soft mode, which corresponds to in-phase rotations of ScF6 rigid groups around the z-axis (and out-of-phase within perovskite-like layers), resembles that observed earlier in RbAlF4, which suggests a similar mechanism of this transition in both crystals.
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