Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-09-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Article submitted to Physical Review B, 39 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.76.144417
This work investigates the magnetically driven ferroelectricity in orthorhombic manganites RMnO3 (R=Gd, Dy or Tb) from the point of view of the symmetry. The method adopted generalizes the one used to characterize the polar properties of displacive modulated structures to the case of an irreducible magnetic order parameter. The symmetry conditions for magnetically induced ferroelectricity are established and the Landau-Devonshire free energy functionals derived from general symmetry considerations. The ferroelectric polarisation observed in DyMnO3 and TbMnO3 at zero magnetic field is explained in terms of the symmetry of a reducible magnetic order parameter. The polarisation rotation induced in these compounds by external magnetic fields and the stabilization of a ferroelectric phase in GdMnO3 are accounted for by a mechanism in which magnetization and polarization are secondary order parameters that are not directly coupled but compete with each other through their coupling to competing primary modulated order parameters.
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