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多铁性钙钛矿锰氧化物的微观模型和Phase Diagrams

Microscopic Model and Phase Diagrams of the Multiferroic Perovskite Manganites

Masahito Mochizuki, Nobuo Furukawa

摘要:

正交畸变钙钛矿锰氧化物RMnO 3(R为三价稀土离子)具有多种磁性和电性相,包括多铁性(即同时具有磁性和铁电性)相和迷人的磁电现象。通过建立微观自旋模型,对RMnO_3的相图进行了理论研究,该模型不仅考虑了超交换相互作用,还考虑了单离子各向异性(SIA)和Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya相互作用(Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya).用Monte-Carlo方法对该模型进行了分析,得到了实验相图随R离子半径的变化关系,其中包含两种不同的多铁性态,即铁电极化为P//a的ab平面自旋摆线和P//c的bc平面自旋摆线。正交晶格畸变或由这种畸变增强的第二近邻自旋交换通过调节SIA和Σ能来精细地控制这两个相之间的激烈竞争。这导致晶格畸变诱导的P从a到c的重取向与实验一致。我们还讨论了A型反铁磁态的自旋结构、摆线自旋态的自旋结构、正弦共线自旋态的起源和性质等问题。

英文摘要:

Orthorhombically distorted perovskite manganites, RMnO3 with R being a trivalent rare-earth ion, exhibit a variety of magnetic and electric phases including multiferroic (i.e. concurrently magnetic and ferroelectric) phases and fascinating magnetoelectric phenomena. We theoretically study the phase diagram of RMnO3 by constructing a microscopic spin model, which includes not only the superexchange interaction but also the single-ion anisotropy (SIA) and the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI). Analysis of this model using the Monte-Carlo method reproduces the experimental phase diagrams as functions of the R-ion radius, which contain two different multiferroic states, i.e. the ab-plane spin cycloid with ferroelectric polarization P//a and the bc-plane spin cycloid with P//c. The orthorhombic lattice distortion or the second-neighbor spin exchanges enhanced by this distortion exquisitely controls the keen competition between these two phases through tuning the SIA and DMI energies. This leads to a lattice-distortion-induced reorientation of P from a to c in agreement with the experiments. We also discuss spin structures in the A-type antiferromagnetic state, those in the cycloidal spin states, origin and nature of the sinusoidal collinear spin state, and many other issues.

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