Helical scattering signatures of strain and electronic textures in YbFe2O4 from three-dimensional reciprocal-space imaging
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 85:1 (2012) ARTN 014115
Magneto-orbital helices as a route to coupling magnetism and ferroelectricity in multiferroic CaMn鈧嘜鈧佲倐.
Nat Commun 3 (2012) 1277
Abstract:
Orbital physics drives a rich phenomenology in transition-metal oxides, providing the microscopic underpinning for effects such as Colossal Magnetoresistance. In particular, magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom are coupled through orbital ordering, and it has long been hoped that this coupling could be exploited to create high-temperature multiferroics with large values of the electrical polarization. Here we report an unprecedented magneto-orbital texture in multiferroic CaMn(7)O(12), found to give rise to the largest magnetically induced ferroelectric polarization measured to date. X-ray diffraction characterization of the structural modulation in these 'magneto-orbital helices', and analysis of magnetic exchange shows that orbital order is crucial in stabilising a chiral magnetic structure, thus allowing for electric polarization. Additionally, the presence of a global structural rotation enables the coupling between this polarization and magnetic helicity required for multiferroicity. These novel principles open up the possibility of discovering new multiferroics with even larger polarization and higher transition temperatures.Spin Waves and Revised Crystal Structure of Honeycomb Iridate Na2IrO3
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 108:12 (2012) ARTN 127204
Symmetry in Crystallography
Oxford University Press, 2011
Abstract:
This book presents the reader with a fresh and unconventional approach to teaching crystallographic symmetry.Giant improper ferroelectricity in the ferroaxial magnet CaMn7O12
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