Analysis of optical magnetoelectric effect in GaFeO_3

Details Analysis of optical magnetoelectric effect in GaFeO_3 Analysis of optical magnetoelectric effect in GaFeO_3

2009-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0907.5070v1

Phys. Rev. B 80 (2009) 054418.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

18 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

We study the optical absorption spectra in a polar ferrimagnet GaFeO_3. We consider the E1, E2 and M1 processes on Fe atoms. It is shown that the magnetoelectric effect on the absorption spectra arises from the E1-M1 interference process through the hybridization between the 4p and 3d states in the noncentrosymmetry environment of Fe atoms. We perform a microscopic calculation of the spectra on a cluster model of FeO_6 consisting of an octahedron of O atoms and an Fe atom displaced from the center with reasonable values for Coulomb interaction and hybridization. We obtain the magnetoelectric spectra, which depend on the direction of magnetization, as a function of photon energy in the optical region 1.0-2.5 eV, in agreement with the experiment.

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