Ferroelectric space groups

Abstract

The 440 ferroelectric space groups, viz the Heesch-Shubnikov (magnetic) space groups, which are symmetry groups of ferroelectric electric-dipole arrangements in crystals, are derived and tabulated. By considering automorphisms induced by the automorphisms of the discrete space-time group, we show that although ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and ferrocurrent point groups all number 31, the number of ferroelectric space groups differs from 275, which is that of both ferromagnetic and ferrocurrent space groups.