Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-04-22
Physical Review B 83, 174426 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
10 pages, to appear in Physical Review B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.174426
We have successfully induced multiferroic behavior in the A-type antiferromagnet SmMnO3 by the substitution of Y at the Sm site. A magnetic transition develops at 24 K for Sm1-xYxMnO3 (x=0.4,0.5) which is not present in the parent compound. This transition coincides with the onset of electric order, with an electric polarization measured along the c axis. It is proposed that the effect of Y doping is to bring about a subtle distortion of the MnO6 octahedra, causing a magnetic ordering of the Mn3+ moments similar to that reported for the well studied multiferroic TbMnO3. Following on from our previous study on polycrystalline samples, we present measurements of the magnetic and electric properties of single crystal Sm0.6Y0.4MnO3 and Sm0.5Y0.5MnO3. The data are summarized in a phase diagram for each of the principal crystallographic axes for the x=0.5 compound. Powder neutron diffraction experiments on SmMnO3 and Sm0.6Y0.4MnO3 show that the Y substitution causes a change in the Mn-O-Mn bond angle towards the value found for TbMnO3. The magnetic structure of Sm0.6Y0.4MnO3 has been shown to consist of two phases: a sinusoidal ordering of the Mn3+ moments below 50 K and a cycloidal ordering below 27 K. The cycloidal ordering occurs at the same temperature as the previously observed ferroelectric polarization, suggesting a similar multiferroic mechanism to that found in TbMnO3.
Balakrishnan Ganesh
Daoud-Aladine Aziz
Lees Martin Richard
O'Flynn D.
Tomy C. V.
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