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Perovskite Manganites Hosting Versatile Multiferroic Phases with Symmetric and Antisymmetric Exchange Strictions

arXiv:0911.4190 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.81.100411

Abstract

Complete magnetoelectric (ME) phase diagrams of orthorhombic MnO with and without magnetic moments on the ions have been established. Three kinds of multiferroic ground states, the -cycloidal, the -cycloidal, and the collinear -type phases, have been identified by the distinct ME responses. The electric polarization of the -type phase dominated by the symmetric spin exchange () is more than 10 times as large as that of the -cycloidal phase dominated by the antisymmetric one (), and the ME response is enhanced near the bicritical phase boundary between these multiferroic phases of different origins. These findings will provide an important clue for the development of the magnetically induced multiferroics.

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