The great sensitivity of ferroelectrics to chemistry, defects, electrical boundary conditions and pressure arises from a delicate balance between long-range Coulomb forces (which favour the ferroelectric state) and short-range repulsions (which favour the nonpolar cubic structure).

(Ref: Ronald E. Cohen, Origin of ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides, nature)

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