E-type noncollinear magnetic ordering in multiferroic o-LuMnO3

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关键词: NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION;    FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION;    HIGH-PRESSURE;    PEROVSKITE;    CRYSTAL;    TBMNO3;    YMNO3;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.95.104412

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

Multiferroic orthorhombic o-LuMnO3 exhibits large ferroelectric polarization induced by an E-type magnetic order. Recently, the E-type magnetic phase in LuMnO3 was proposed to feature magnetic moments tilted away from the collinear ordering. We employed neutron diffraction to determine the symmetry of the magnetic order in o-LuMnO3. We observed that below T-N = 39 K, the Mn3+ spins order into an incommensurate amplitudemodulated phase that obeys the Pbnm crystal symmetry and is paraelectric. The incommensurate phase locks into a commensurate phase at T-C = 35.5 K described by a fully antiferromagnetic and noncollinear E-type order. This noncollinear E-type ordering breaks the spatial inversion symmetry and induces a spontaneous polarization at TC. At T = 2 K, an appreciably large electric polarization was observed similar to that of other orthorhombic manganites featuring E-type magnetic order. We also present a Pbnm symmetry-allowed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that explains the noncollinear E-type order in the commensurate phase. These results are in qualitative agreement with the type of distortions from collinear E-type antiferromagnetic order found using Monte Carlo simulation for rare-earth manganites

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