Journal of Applied Physics
Feedback | Help | Exit
Journal of Applied Physics
Search:
   
 
 
 
Previous Article
Correlations between magnetic and electrical orderings in multiferroic manganites (invited)
The multiferroic rare-earth compounds RMnO3 with R=Ho–Yb are shown to be the source of "gigantic" magnetoelectric effects. Application of static magnetic or electric field induces a pha...
Next Article
Temperature-driven band motion prior to the phase transition of an itinerant ferromagnet
Tunneling magnetoresistance spectroscopy measurements have been performed on spin-valve magnetic tunnel junctions where the free magnetic electrode is a Cu38Ni62 alloy with a Curie temperature of arou...

Ferroelectricity induced by incommensurate magnetism (invited)

J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08E303 (2006); doi:10.1063/1.2177392

Published 27 April 2006

You are not logged in to this journal. Log in

A. Brooks Harris
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Ferroelectricity has been found to occur in several insulating systems, such as TbMnO3 and Ni3V2O8 which have more than one phase with incommensurately modulated long-range magnetic order. Here we give a phenomenological model which relates the symmetries of the magnetic structure as obtained from neutron diffraction to the development and orientation of a spontaneous ferroelectric moment induced by the magnetic ordering. This model leads directly to the formulation of a microscopic spin-phonon interaction which explains the observed phenomena. The results are given in terms of gradients of the exchange tensor with respect to generalized displacements for the specific example of NVO. It is assumed that these gradients will now be the target of first-principles calculations using the LDA+U or related schemes. ©2006 American Institute of Physics
History: Presented 1 November 2005; published 27 April 2006
Permalink: http://link.aip.org/link/?JAPIAU/99/08E303/1
BUY THIS ARTICLE   (US$24)
Download HTML Download Sectioned HTML Download PDF (160 kB) View Cart

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 77.84.Bw
    Dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric elements, oxides, nitrides, borides, carbides, chalcogenides, etc.
  • 77.80.-e
    Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity
  • 75.25.+z
    Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source X-ray scattering, etc
  • YEAR: 2006

RELATED DATABASES


To view database links for this article,
you need to log in.
To view database links for this article,
you need to log in.

PUBLICATION DATA

ISSN:
0021-8979 (print)   1089-7550 (online)
Publisher:
AIP is a member of CrossRef AIP

REFERENCES (19)
View in Separate Window/Tab
For access to fully linked references, you need to log in. For access to fully linked references, you need to Log in.
  1. N. Rogado, G. Lawes, D. A. Huse, A. P. Ramirez, and R. J. Cava, Solid State Commun. 124, 229 (2002).
  2. G. Lawes et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 247201 (2004).
  3. G. Lawes et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087205 (2005).
  4. M. Kenzelmann et al., e-print cond-mat/0510386.
  5. N. Hur, S. Park, P. A. Sharma, J. S. Ahn, S. Guha, and S.-W. Cheong, Nature (London) 429, 392 (2004).
  6. M. Kenzelmann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087206 (2005).
  7. A. B. Harris and G. Lawes, The Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials (Wiley, London, 2006), e-print cond-mat/0508617.
  8. P. C. Hohenberg and W. Kohn, Phys. Rev. 136, B864 (1964);
  9. W. Kohn and L. J. Sham, ibid. 140, A1133 (1965).
  10. V. I. Anisimov, F. Aryasetiawan, and A. I. Lichtenstein, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9, 767 (1997).
  11. I. Dzyaloshinskii, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 4, 241 (1958).
  12. T. Moriya, Phys. Rev. 120, 91 (1960).
  13. P. W. Anderson, Phys. Rev. 115, 2 (1959).
  14. A. J. C. Wilson, International Tables For Crystallography (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, 1995), Vol. A.
  15. Y. J. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. B 64, 024435 (2001).
  16. T. Nagamiya, in Solid State Physics, edited by F. Seitz and D. Turnbull (Academic, New York, 1967), Vol. 29, p. 346.
  17. A. B. Harris, A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, T. Yildirim, and M. Kenzelmann (unpublished).
  18. D. Frohlich, St. Leute, V. V. Pavlov, and R. V. Pisarev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3239 (1998).
  19. J. H. M. van den Berg and A. van der Avoird, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 1, 4047 (1989).
  20. A. B. Harris, T. Yildirim, A. Aharony, and O. Entin-Wohlman, e-print cond-mat/0510807.

CITING ARTICLES
For access to citing articles, you need to log in.
For access to citing articles, you need to Log in.


Copyright © American Institute of Physics