Magnetic field control of cycloidal domains and electric polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3

  • The magnetic field induced rearrangement of the cycloidal spin structure in ferroelectric monodomain single crystals of the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 is studied using small-angle neutron scattering. The cycloid propagation vectors are observed to rotate when magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the rhombohedral (polar) axis exceed a pinning threshold value of ∼5  T. In light of these experimental results, a phenomenological model is proposed that captures the rearrangement of the cycloidal domains, and we revisit the microscopic origin of the magnetoelectric effect. A new coupling between the magnetic anisotropy and the polarization is proposed that explains the recently discovered magnetoelectric polarization perpendicular to the rhombohedral axis.

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Author:Sándor Bordács, D. G. Farkas, J. S. White, R. Cubitt, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, T. Ito, István KézsmárkiORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-436277
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/43627
ISSN:0031-9007OPAC
ISSN:1079-7114OPAC
Parent Title (English):Physical Review Letters
Publisher:American Physical Society (APS)
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2018/11/16
Volume:120
Issue:14
First Page:147203
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.120.147203
Institutes:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik / Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik V
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):Deutsches Urheberrecht