G. Zwanenburg et E. Deboer, APPLICATION OF SUPERSPACE SYMMETRY TO OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SPECTRA OF INCOMMENSURABLY MODULATED CRYSTALS, Molecular physics, 86(3), 1995, pp. 475-486
The superspace description of incommensurable crystals is used to calc
ulate the symmetry adapted crystal field potential for an incommensura
ble crystal. With this crystal field potential the perturbation of the
high temperature phase energy levels by the incommensurable modulatio
n can be calculated using perturbation theory. The results of such cal
culations on ThBr4 are compared with the experimental results obtained
from optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.