Magnetic ordering and multiferroicity in MnI${}_2$

Abstract

Density-functional calculations are carried out to investigate incommensurate magnetic structures and ferroelectric polarization in newly discovered multiferroic material MnI${}_2$. The exchange interactions among local moments on Mn are parameterized by mapping the mean-field Heisenberg model on to total energy difference of several magnetic ordering states. The experimentally observed noncollinear magnetic states are well reproduced by using this model and exchange interaction parameters. The direction of polarization experimentally measured is also consistent with the result derived from the symmetry analysis of the magnetically ordered state. In particular, we find that the inter-plane magnetic exchange coupling is pivotal to the emergence of the spiral magnetic structure. This noncollinear magnetic structure, combined with spin-orbit coupling mainly from I ions, is responsible for the appearance of ferroelectric polarization.

9 pages, 8 figures, published version

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