Ferroelectricity Induced by Incommensurate Magnetism

Details Ferroelectricity Induced by Incommensurate Magnetism Ferroelectricity Induced by Incommensurate Magnetism

2005-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508730v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

2005 MMM (Magnetism) Conference - 16 pages and 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2177392

Ferroelectricity has been found to occur in several insulating systems, such as TbMnO$_3$ (TMO) and Ni$_3$V$_2$O$_8$ (NVO) 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 gives 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 or related schemes.

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