Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-11-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
12 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.134113
The structural, electronic and lattice dielectric properties of multiferroic TbMn$_2$O$_5$ are investigated using density functional theory within the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). We use collinear spin approximations and ignore the spin-orbit coupling. The calculated structural parameters are in excellent agreement with the experiments. We confirm that the ground state structure of TbMn$_2$O$_5$ is of space group $Pb2_1m$, allowing polarizations along the b-axis. The spontaneous electric polarization is calculated to be 1187 $nC\cdot$cm$^{-2}$. The calculated zone-center optical phonons frequencies and the oscillator strengths of IR phonons agree very well with the experimental values. We then derive an effective Hamiltonian to explain the magnetically-induced ferroelectricity in this compound. Our results strongly suggest that the ferroelectricity in TbMn$_2$O$_5$ is driven by the magnetic ordering that breaks the the inversion symmetry, without invoking the spin-orbit coupling.
Guo Guang-Can
He Lixin
Wang Chenjie
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