Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-03-19
EPL 82 (2008) 57005
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/82/57005
An effective model is developed to explain the phase diagram and the mechanism of magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroics, $RMn_2O_5$. We show that the nature of magnetoelectric coupling in $RMn_2O_5$ is a coupling between two Ising-type orders, namely, the ferroelectric order in the b axis, and the coupled magnetic order between two frustrated antiferromagnetic chains. The frustrated magnetic structure drives the system to a commensurate-incommensurate phase transition, which can be understood as a competition between a collinear or col-plane order stemming from the `order by disorder' mechanism and a chiral symmetry order. The low energy excitation is calculated and the effect of the external magnetic field is analyzed. Distinct features in the electromagnon spectrums in the incommensurate phase are predicted.
Fang Chen
Hu Jiangping
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