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Epitaxial-strain-induced multiferroicity in SrMnO from first principles

arXiv:0910.5438 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.207204

Abstract

First-principles density-functional calculations reveal a large spin-phonon coupling in cubic SrMnO, with ferromagnetic ordering producing a polar instability. Through combination of this coupling with the strain-polarization coupling characteristic of perovskites, the bulk antiferromagnetic paraelectric ground state of SrMnO is shown to be driven to a previously unreported multiferroic ferroelectric-ferromagnetic state by increasing epitaxial strain, both tensile and compressive. This state has a computed polarization and estimated Curie temperature above 54 C/cm and 92 K. Large mixed magnetic-electric-elastic responses are predicted in the vicinity of the phase boundaries.

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