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- Title
Room-temperature electric polarization induced by phase separation in multiferroic GdMnO.
- Authors
Khannanov, B.; Sanina, V.; Golovenchits, E.; Scheglov, M.
- Abstract
It was generally accepted until recently that multiferroics RMnO crystallized in the centrosymmetric space group Pbam and ferroelectricity in them could exist only at low temperatures due to the magnetic exchange striction. Recent comprehensive structural studies [V. Baledent et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 117601 (2015)] have shown that the actual symmetry of RMnO at room temperature is a noncentrosymmetric monoclinic space group Pm, which allows room temperature ferroelectricity to exist. However, such a polarization has not yet been found. Our electric polarization loop studies of GdMnO have revealed that a polarization does exist up to room temperature. This polarization occurs mainly in restricted polar domains that arise in the initial GdMnO matrix due to phase separation and charge carrier self-organization. These domains are selfconsistent with the matrix, which leads to the noncentrosymmetricity of the entire crystal. The polarization is controlled by a magnetic field, thereby demonstrating the presence of magnetoelectric coupling. The lowtemperature ferroelectricity enhances the restricted polar domain polarization along the b axis.
- Subjects
PHASE separation; MULTIFERROIC materials; SPACE groups; FERROELECTRICITY; POLARIZATION (Electricity); MAGNETIC fields; MAGNETIC coupling
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2016, Vol 103, Issue 4, p248
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S002136401604007X