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Non-collinear magnetism & multiferroicity: the perovskite case. PHYSICAL SCIENCES REVIEWS 2021. [DOI: 10.1515/psr-2019-0071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The most important types of non-collinear magnetic orders that are realized in simple perovskite oxides are outlined in relation to multiferroicity. These orders are classified and rationalized in terms of a mimimal spin Hamiltonian, based on which the notion of spin-driven ferroelectricity is illustrated. These concepts find direct application in reference materials such as BiFeO3, GdFeO3 and TbMnO3 whose multiferroic properties are briefly reviewed.
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Robert J, Parizel N, Turek P, Boudalis AK. Polyanisotropic Magnetoelectric Coupling in an Electrically Controlled Molecular Spin Qubit. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:19765-19775. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jérôme Robert
- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg (UMR 7177, CNRS-Unistra), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, F-67081 Strasbourg, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire Jean Perrin, LJP, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg (UMR 7177, CNRS-Unistra), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, F-67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg (UMR 7177, CNRS-Unistra), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, F-67081 Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg (UMR 7177, CNRS-Unistra), Université de Strasbourg, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, CS 90032, F-67081 Strasbourg, France
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The in-plane spin helicity of coplanar helical spin configurations of frustrated single trimer V3 and Cu3 nanomagnets, inversion (switching) of spin helicity. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Belinsky MI. Spin Chirality of Cu3 and V3 Nanomagnets. 1. Rotation Behavior of Vector Chirality, Scalar Chirality, and Magnetization in the Rotating Magnetic Field, Magnetochiral Correlations. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:4078-90. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Moisey I. Belinsky
- School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Bousquet E, Cano A. Non-collinear magnetism in multiferroic perovskites. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:123001. [PMID: 26912212 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/12/123001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We present an overview of the current interest in non-collinear magnetism in multiferroic perovskite crystals. We first describe the different microscopic mechanisms giving rise to the non-collinearity of spins in this class of materials. We discuss, in particular, the interplay between non-collinear magnetism and ferroelectric and antiferrodistortive distortions of the perovskite structure, and how this can promote magnetoelectric responses. We then provide a literature survey on non-collinear multiferroic perovskites. We discuss numerous examples of spin cantings driving weak ferromagnetism in transition metal perovskites, and of spin-induced ferroelectricity as observed in the rare-earth based perovskites. These examples are chosen to best illustrate the fundamental role of non-collinear magnetism in the design of multiferroicity.
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- Eric Bousquet
- Physique Théorique des Matériaux, Université de Liège, B-4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
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Lu C, Deniz H, Li X, Liu JM, Cheong SW. Continuous Magnetoelectric Control in Multiferroic DyMnO3 Films with Twin-like Domains. Sci Rep 2016; 6:20175. [PMID: 26829899 PMCID: PMC4735850 DOI: 10.1038/srep20175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization is currently a central topic in the multiferroic researches, owing to the related gigantic magnetoelectric coupling and fascinating physics. Although a bunch of novel magnetoelectric effect have been discovered in multiferroics of magnetic origin, the manipulation of polarization was found to be fundamentally determined by the microscopic origin in a certain multiferroic phase, hindering the development of unusual magnetoelectric control. Here, we report emergent magnetoelectric control in DyMnO3/Nb:SrTiO3 (001) films showing twin-like domain structure. Our results demonstrate interesting magnetically induced partial switch of polarization due to the coexistence of polarizations along both the a-axis and c-axis enabled by the twin-like domain structure in DyMnO3 films, despite the polarization-switch was conventionally believed to be a one-step event in the bulk counterpart. Moreover, a continuous and periodic control of macroscopic polarization by an in-plane rotating magnetic field is evidenced in the thin films. This distinctive magnetic manipulation of polarization is the consequence of the cooperative action of the twin-like domains and the dual magnetic origin of polarization, which promises additional applications using the magnetic control of ferroelectricity.
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- Chengliang Lu
- School of Physics &Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.,Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854, USA.,Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Matsubara M, Manz S, Mochizuki M, Kubacka T, Iyama A, Aliouane N, Kimura T, Johnson SL, Meier D, Fiebig M. Magnetoelectric domain control in multiferroic TbMnO
3. Science 2015; 348:1112-5. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1260561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Masakazu Matsubara
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8558, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Division of Materials Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Division of Materials Physics, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Tokura Y, Seki S, Nagaosa N. Multiferroics of spin origin. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2014; 77:076501. [PMID: 24994716 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/7/076501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Multiferroics, compounds with both magnetic and ferroelectric orders, are believed to be a key material system to achieve cross-control between magnetism and electricity in a solid with minute energy dissipation. Such a colossal magnetoelectric (ME) effect has been an issue of keen interest for a long time in condensed matter physics as well as a most desired function in the emerging spin-related electronics. Here we begin with the basic mechanisms to realize multiferroicity or spin-driven ferroelectricity in magnetic materials, which have recently been clarified and proved both theoretically and experimentally. According to the proposed mechanisms, many families of multiferroics have been explored, found (re-discovered), and newly developed, realizing a variety of colossal ME controls. We overview versatile multiferroics from the viewpoints of their multiferroicity mechanisms and their fundamental ME characteristics on the basis of the recent advances in exploratory materials. One of the new directions in multiferroic science is the dynamical ME effect, namely the dynamical and/or fast cross-control between electric and magnetic dipoles in a solid. We argue here that the dynamics of multiferroic domain walls significantly contributes to the amplification of ME response, which has been revealed through the dielectric spectroscopy. Another related issue is the electric-dipole-active magnetic resonance, called electromagnons. The electromagnons can provide a new stage of ME optics via resonant coupling with the external electromagnetic wave (light). Finally, we give concluding remarks on multiferroics physics in the light of a broader perspective from the emergent electromagnetism in a solid as well as from the possible application toward future dissipationless electronics.
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- Yoshinori Tokura
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako 351-0198, Japan. Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Fina I, Fàbrega L, Martí X, Sánchez F, Fontcuberta J. Chiral domains in cycloidal multiferroic thin films: switching and memory effects. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:257601. [PMID: 22243112 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.257601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Cycloidal magnetic order occurring in some AMnO(3) perovskites is known to induce ferroelectricity. The polarization is perpendicular to the propagation vector direction of the cycloid and its chirality, and therefore it is directly related to the chiral domain structure. We show that the switching process of chiral domains is sensitively dependent on the magnetoelectric history of the sample. Moreover, by appropriate field cycling, magnetic order can display partial chiral memory. We argue that memory results from electric field coupling of cycloidal domain and nucleation and pinning of chiral domain walls, much like the domain structure in other ferroic systems.
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- I Fina
- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
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Kurumaji T, Seki S, Ishiwata S, Murakawa H, Tokunaga Y, Kaneko Y, Tokura Y. Magnetic-field induced competition of two multiferroic orders in a triangular-lattice helimagnet MnI2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:167206. [PMID: 21599411 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.167206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Magnetic and dielectric properties with varying magnitude and direction of magnetic-field H have been investigated for a triangular-lattice helimagnet MnI_{2}. The in-plane electric polarization P emerges in the proper screw magnetic ground state below 3.5 K, showing the rearrangement of six possible multiferroic domains as controlled by the in-plane H. With every 60° rotation of H around the [001] axis, discontinuous 120° flop of the P vector is observed as a result of the flop of magnetic modulation vector q. With increasing the in-plane H above 3 T, however, the stable q direction changes from q‖(110[ ¯over 0]) to q‖(110), leading to a change of P-flop patterns under rotating H. At the critical field region (∼3 T), due to the phase competition and resultant enhanced q flexibility, the P vector smoothly rotates clockwise twice while the H vector rotates counterclockwise once.
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- T Kurumaji
- Department of Applied Physics and Quantum Phase Electronics Center (QPEC), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Chen HB, Zhou Y, Li YQ. The splitting of the electromagnon mode in conically spiral multiferroic magnets. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2011; 23:066002. [PMID: 21406937 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/6/066002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this paper, we study conically spiral multiferroic magnets with coupled magnetic and ferroelectric orders. By generalizing the spin-current model, we study spin wave excitations and electromagnons. We find that the electromagnon mode will split into two branches with different dispersions in an (external or internal) magnetic field. We apply our theory to some multiferroic materials and find that the results qualitatively agree with recent experiments. We also make predictions for new experiments.
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- Hong-Bo Chen
- Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China
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Mochizuki M, Furukawa N. Theory of magnetic switching of ferroelectricity in spiral magnets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:187601. [PMID: 21231137 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.187601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We propose a microscopic theory for magnetic switching of electric polarization (P) in the spin-spiral multiferroics by taking TbMnO3 and DyMnO3 as examples. We reproduce their phase diagrams under a magnetic field Hex by Monte Carlo simulation of an accurate spin model and reveal that competition among the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, spin anisotropy, and spin exchange is controlled by the applied Hex, resulting in magnetic transitions accompanied by reorientation or vanishing of P. We also discuss the relevance of the proposed mechanisms to many other multiferroics such as LiCu2O2, MnWO4, and Ni3V2O4.
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- Masahito Mochizuki
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Tokura Y, Seki S. Multiferroics with spiral spin orders. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2010; 22:1554-1565. [PMID: 20496385 DOI: 10.1002/adma.200901961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Cross correlation between magnetism and electricity in a solid can host magnetoelectric effects, such as magnetic (electric) induction of polarization (magnetization). A key to attain the gigantic magnetoelectric response is to find the efficient magnetism-electricity coupling mechanisms. Among those, recently the emergence of spontaneous (ferroelectric) polarization in the insulating helimagnet or spiral-spin structure was unraveled, as mediated by the spin-exchange and spin-orbit interactions. The sign of the polarization depends on the helicity (spin rotation sense), while the polarization direction itself depends on further details of the mechanism and the underlying lattice symmetry. Here, we describe some prototypical examples of the spiral-spin multiferroics, which enable some unconventional magnetoelectric control such as the magnetic-field-induced change of the polarization direction and magnitude as well as the electric-field-induced change of the spin helicity and magnetic domain.
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- Yoshinori Tokura
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Multiferroics Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
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Agostinho Moreira J, Almeida A, Ferreira WS, Chaves MR, Kundys B, Ranjith R, Prellier W, Vilela SMF, Tavares PB. Polar properties of Eu(0.6)Y(0.4)MnO(3) ceramics and their magnetic field dependence. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:446002. [PMID: 21832475 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/44/446002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Eu(1-x)Y(x)MnO(3), compared against other magnetoelectric systems, exhibits very distinctive features. Its magnetoelectric properties are driven by the magnetic spin of the Mn(3+) ion, but they can be drastically changed by varying the content of Y(3+), which does not carry any magnetic moment. Although the x = 0.40 composition has been studied extensively, some basic areas still remain to be thoroughly understood. Thus, this work is aimed at studying some of its polar properties and their magnetic field dependence as well. The experimental results reported here show that this material is very easily polarizable under external electric fields, and so, whenever the polarization is obtained from time integration of the displacement currents, an induced polarization is superposed on the spontaneous one, eventually masking the occurrence of ferroelectricity. We have found clear evidence for the influence of a magnetic field in the polar properties of Eu(0.6)Y(0.4)MnO(3). The study of electric polarization of Eu(0.6)Y(0.4)MnO(3) under an external magnetic field yields a value with the same order of magnitude of the remanent polarization as was determined from polarization reversal experiments. The comparison of the magnetically induced changes in the polarization obtained for polycrystalline samples and single crystals confirms the threshold magnetic field value for the polarization rotation from the a-direction to the c-direction, and provides evidence of the importance of the granular nature of the samples in the polar response to the magnetic field.
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- J Agostinho Moreira
- IFIMUP and IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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Taniguchi K, Abe N, Ohtani S, Arima T. Magnetoelectric memory effect of the nonpolar phase with collinear spin structure in multiferroic MnWO4. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:147201. [PMID: 19392476 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.147201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The novel memory effect of a nonpolar paraelectric phase with a collinear spin structure has been observed in a magnetoelectric multiferroic material MnWO4. Since the ferroelectric polarization arises from a noncollinear spin structure, in a new class of magnetoelectric multiferroic materials with a spiral-spin structure, the information of ferroelectric domains should be lost in the collinear spin phase. However, in MnWO4, it has been found that the domain states in the ferroelectric phase are memorized even in the nonpolar phase with a collinear spin structure, when the phase transition is of the first-order type. Here we demonstrate a magnetoelectric memory effect that the ferroelectric single-domain state can be reproduced from the paraelectric phase by a magnetic field. We propose the nuclei growth model, in which the small ferroelectric embryos keep the polarization state in the nonpolar collinear spin phase.
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- K Taniguchi
- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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