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Ba2CoGe2O7的磁化诱导局域电偶极子和多铁性

Magnetization induced local electric dipoles and multiferroic properties of Ba2CoGe2O7

I. V. Solovyev

摘要:

Ba_2CoGe_2O_7是一类特殊的多铁性材料,具有非中心对称的非极性结构,其性质由旋转反转对称性决定。与反转不同,旋转反转对称性可以容易地被磁化破坏。此外,由于特定的结构模式,Ba 2CoGe 2 O 7的磁结构相对较软。总之,这导致了丰富多样的多铁性,其中磁结构可以容易地被磁场变形,在方向上感应电极化的强度,这取决于磁场的方向。在本文中,我们表明,所有这些属性可以成功地解释现实的低能量模型的基础上,来自第一原理的电子结构计算的磁活性Co 3d带,和贝里相位理论的电极化的强度。特别是,我们认为,磁化诱导电极化的强度在Ba 2CoGe 2 O 7基本上是本地的,并表示通过一些偶极子矩阵的期望值,计算模型的Wannier基,和网站对角密度矩阵的磁性Co网站。因此,Ba 2CoGe 2 O 7的行为的基本方面已经可以在原子极限下理解,其中磁各向异性和磁电耦合都由密度矩阵指定。然后,宏观极化可以被发现作为一个单独的Co网站的电偶极子的叠加。我们讨论了原子间磁相互作用的行为,对磁晶各向异性和自旋倾斜的主要贡献,以及自旋相关p-d杂化唯象模型所提出的图像的异同。

英文摘要:

Ba2CoGe2O7, crystallizing in the noncentrosymmetric but nonpolar structure, belongs to a special class of multiferroic materials, whose properties are predetermined by the rotoinversion symmetry. Unlike inversion, the rotoinversion symmetry can be easily destroyed by the magnetization. Moreover, due to specific structural pattern, the magnetic structure of Ba2CoGe2O7 is relatively soft. Altogether, this leads to the rich variety of multiferroic properties, where the magnetic structure can be easily deformed by the magnetic field, inducing the electric polarization in the direction, which depends on the direction of the magnetic field. In this paper, we show that all these properties can be successfully explained on the basis of realistic low-energy model, derived from the first-principles electronic structure calculations for the magnetically active Co 3d bands, and the Berry-phase theory of electric polarization. Particularly, we argue that the magnetization induced electric polarization in Ba2CoGe2O7 is essentially local and expressed via the expectation values of some dipole matrices, calculated in the Wannier basis of the model, and the site-diagonal density matrices of the magnetic Co sites. Thus, the basic aspects of the behavior of Ba2CoGe2O7 can be understood already in the atomic limit, where both magnetic anisotropy and magnetoelectric coupling are specified by density matrix. Then, the macroscopic polarization can be found as a superposition of electric dipoles of the individual Co sites. We discuss the behavior of interatomic magnetic interactions, main contributions to the magnetocrystalline anisotropy and the spin canting, as well as the similarities and differences of the proposed picture from the phenomenological model of spin-dependent p-d hybridization.

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