First-principles calculation of the bulk magnetoelectric monopolization: Berry phase and Wannier function approaches

Abstract

We present a formalism to calculate the macroscopic magnetoelectric monopolization from first principles within the density functional theory framework. An expression for the monopolization in the case of insulating collinear magnetism is derived first in terms of spin-polarized Wannier functions then recast as a Berry phase. We propose an extension to the general, non-collinear case which we implement computationally in the Wannier function form and use to calculate the magnetoelectric monopolizations of LiMnPO${}_4$ and Cr${}_2$O${}_3$. We find that, while the former is well approximated by a summation over the formal local spin moments, the latter shows significant deviations from this approximation. We suggest that equating the Berry phase value with a sum over local moments provides an unambiguous route to defining the size of the local magnetic moment in magnetoelectric antiferromagnets containing only one type of magnetic ion.

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