Magnetic-field induced effects on the electric polarization in RMnO3 (R = Dy, Gd)

Details Magnetic-field induced effects on the electric polarization in RMnO3 (R = Dy, Gd) Magnetic-field induced effects on the electric polarization in RMnO3 (R = Dy, Gd)

2009-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3911v2

Physical Review B 79, 134426 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 Figures, v2: improved figure layout

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.134426

X-ray resonant magnetic scattering studies of rare earth magnetic ordering were performed on perovskite manganites RMnO3 (R = Dy, Gd) in an applied magnetic field. The data reveal that the field-induced three-fold polarization enhancement for H || a (H approx. 20 kOe) observed in DyMnO3 below 6.5 K is due to a re-emergence of the Mn-induced Dy spin order with propagation vector k(Dy) = k(Mn) = 0.385 b*, which accompanies the suppression of the independent Dy magnetic ordering, k(Dy) = 1/2 b*. For GdMnO3, the Mn-induced ordering of Gd spins is used to track the Mn-ordering propagation vector. The data confirm the incommensurate ordering reported previously, with k(Mn) varying from 0.245 to 0.16 b* on cooling from T_N(Mn) down to a transition temperature T'. New superstructure reflections which appear below T' suggest a propagation vector k(Mn) = 1/4 b* in zero magnetic field, which may coexist with the previously reported A-type ordering of Mn. The Gd spins order with the same propagation vector below 7 K. Within the ordered state of Gd at T = 1.8 K we find a phase boundary for an applied magnetic field H || b, H = 10 kOe, which coincides with the previously reported transition between the ground state paraelectric and the ferroelectric phase of GdMnO3. Our results suggest that the magnetic ordering of Gd in magnetic field may stabilize a cycloidal ordering of Mn that, in turn, produces ferroelectricity.

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