We report the discovery of a complete suppression of ferroelectricity in $MnWO_4$ by 10 % iron substitution and its restoration in external magnetic fields. The spontaneous polarization in $Mn_{0.9}Fe_{0.1}WO_4$ arises below 12 K in external fields above 4 T. The magnetic/ferroelectric phase diagram is constructed from the anomalies of the dielectric constant, polarization, magnetization, and heat capacity. The observations are qualitatively described by a mean field model with competing interactions and strong anisotropy. We propose that the magnetic field induces a non-collinear inversion symmetry breaking magnetic structure in $Mn_{0.9}Fe_{0.1}WO_4$.
Spin-Wave and Electromagnon Dispersions in Multiferroic MnWO4 as Observed by Neutron Spectroscopy: Isotropic Heisenberg Exchange versus Anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
The structural distortion and magnetoelastic coupling induced through commensurate magnetism has been investigated by neutron diffraction in structurally related MnWO$_4$ and NaFe(WO$_4$)$_2$. Both systems exhibit a competition of incommensurate spiral and commensurate spin up-up-down-down ordering along the magnetic chains. In the latter commensurate phases, the alternatingly parallel and antiparallel arrangement of Fe$^{3+}$ respectively Mn$^{2+}$ moments leads to sizeable bond-angle modulation and thus to magnetic dimerization. For NaFe(WO$_4$)$_2$ this structural distortion has been determ…
Dynamics of Multiferroic Domain Wall in Spin-Cycloidal Ferroelectric DyMnO$_{3}$
本文报道了多铁性DyMnO $_{3}$在宽频率范围内的巨磁电容（GMC）的介电色散。GMC被发现是归因于不软化的电磁振子，但电场驱动的运动的多铁性畴壁（DW）。与传统的铁电DW相比，本发明的多铁性DW运动即使在低温下也保持$\sim$ $10^{7}$ s $^{-1}$的极高弛豫速率。这种移动的性质以及模型模拟表明，多铁性DW不是原子薄的铁电体，但厚，反映其磁性起源。
Electronic correlations decimate the ferroelectric polarization of multiferroic HoMn2O5
我们表明，电子相关性抽取的本征铁电极化最近发现的一类多铁性锰氧化物RMn $_2$ O $_5$，其中R是一种稀土元素。这是从{ \it ab initio}能带结构计算证明，该计算解释了锰3d电子之间的强局部库仑相互作用-这些材料中磁性的根源。当包括这些时，计算的多铁性HoMn $_2$ O $_5$的电子、磁性和晶格结构导致与实验一致的极化的幅度和方向。抽取背后的微观机制是铁电晶格位移引起的离子极化和价电荷重新分布引起的电子极化的近抵消。
Multiferroics: different ways to combine magnetism and ferroelectricity
多铁性-材料同时（铁）磁性和铁电性，往往也是铁弹性，吸引了现在相当大的关注，既因为有趣的物理参与，因为他们承诺重要的实际应用。在本文中，我给出了一个调查的微观因素决定这些属性的共存，并讨论了不同的可能途径，将它们结合在一种材料。特别是在过渡金属钙钛矿中的d-状态的占领的作用进行了讨论，螺旋磁结构的可能作用被强调和铁电性的磁系统中的新机制，由于结合的网站为中心的和键为中心的电荷排序。在几个特定的材料，包括磁铁矿Fe 3 O 4，多铁性行为的微观本质进行了讨论。
Quantum matter hosts a large variety of phases, some coexisting, some competing; when two or more orders occur together, they are often entangled and cannot be separated. Dynamical multiferroicity, where fluctuations of electric dipoles lead to magnetisation, is an example where the two orders are impossible to disentangle. Here we demonstrate elevated magnetic response of a ferroelectric near the ferroelectric quantum critical point (FE QCP) since magnetic fluctuations are entangled with ferroelectric fluctuations. We thus suggest that any ferroelectric quantum critical point is an \textit{in…
Multiferroics with coupling between ferroelectricity and magnetism have been pursued for decades. However, their magnetoelectric performances remain limited due to the common trade-off between ferroelectricity and magnetism. Here, a family of nitride perovskites is proposed as multiferroics with prominent physical properties and nontrivial mechanisms. Taking GdWN$_3$ as a prototype, our first-principles calculations found that its perovskite phases own large polarizations (e.g. $111.3$ $μ$C/cm$^2$ for the $R3c$ phase) and a magnetic moment $7$ $μ_{\rm B}$/Gd$^{3+}$. More interestingly, its fer…
The role of ferroelectric-ferromagnetic layers on the properties of superlattice-based multiferroics
利用脉冲激光沉积技术在（100）SrTiO_3上生长了一系列由铁磁层、铁电层或顺电层组成的超晶格和三层结构。研究了它们的结构和磁电性能。由铁磁Pr 0.85 Ca 0.15 MnO 3（PCMO）和铁电体即Ba 0.6 Sr 0.4 TiO 3（BST）或BaTiO 3制成的超晶格在高施加的磁场下显示出增强的磁阻（MR），而在Pr 0.85 Ca 0.15 MnO 3/SrTiO 3超晶格中不存在这种增强，这清楚地证明了铁电体层在这种增强的MR中的优势作用。在PCMO/BST的三层中没有增强的MR表明在这些系统中导致MR的磁电耦合在多层中比在它们的三层对应物中更强。
We have investigated the structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of Pb-based langasite compound Pb$_3$TeMn$_3$P$_2$O$_{14}$ both experimentally and theoretically in the light of metal-oxygen covalency, and the consequent generation of multiferroicity. It is known that large covalency between Pb 6$p$ and O 2$p$ plays instrumental role behind stereochemical lone pair activity of Pb. The same happens here but a subtle structural phase transition above room temperature changes the degree of such lone pair activity and the system becomes ferroelectric below 310 K. Interestingly, this structu…
Hexagonal manganites are multiferroic materials with two highly-dissimilar phase transitions: a ferroelectric transition (from P63/mmc to P63cm) at a temperature higher than 1000 K and an antiferromagnetic transition at TN=65 - 130 K. Despite its critical relevance to the intriguing ferroelectric domain physics, the details of the ferroelectric transition are yet not well known to date primarily because of the ultra-high transition temperature. Using high-temperature X-ray diffraction experiments, we show that the ferroelectric transition is a single transition of abrupt order and R-Op displac…
Polar metals are defined by the coexistence of metallicity and polar crystal structure. They have potential applications in non-linear optics, ferroelectric devices, and quantum devices. Meanwhile, ferroelectric-ferromagnetic (FE-FM) multiferroics display simultaneous ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism, leading to new technologies in information storage. It remains an open question whether metallicity, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism can coexist in a single domain of a material. EuTiO$_3$ is actively studied for potential applications in magnetic sensors, memories, magneto-optical device…
For the past decades, the low-temperature phase of Ca$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ below the 48K first-order phase transition remains a puzzle with controversial suggestions involving metallic ferroelectric, orbital or magnetic ordering. Through analysis of experimental lattice structure, density functional theory calculation, and effective model analysis, we propose that the 48K phase transition is a bond formation transition promoted by the magnetism mediated orbital re-polarization. Most interestingly, this transition is accompanied by a switch of \textit{two} metallic ferroelectric orders from a $xy+y$ …
