Coupling and competition between ferroelectricity, magnetism, strain and oxygen vacancies in AMnO3 perovskites

Abstract

We use first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to investigate the interplay between oxygen vacancies, A-site cation size / tolerance factor, epitaxial strain, ferroelectricity and magnetism in the perovskite manganite series, AMnO3 (A=Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+). We find that, as expected, increasing the volume through either chemical pressure or tensile strain generally lowers the formation energy of neutral oxygen vacancies consistent with their established tendency to expand the lattice. Increased volume also favors polar distortions, both because competing rotations of the oxygen octahedra are suppressed and because coulomb repulsion associated with cation off-centering is reduced. Interestingly, the presence of ferroelectric polarization favors ferromagnetic over antiferromagnetic ordering due to suppressed antiferromagnetic superexchange as the polar distortion bends the Mn-O-Mn bond angles away from the optimal 180deg. Intriguingly, we find that polar distortions compete with the formation of oxygen vacancies, which have a higher formation energy in the polar phases; conversely the presence of oxygen vacancies suppresses the onset of polarization. In contrast, oxygen vacancy formation energies are lower for ferromagnetic than antiferromagnetic orderings of the same structure type. Our findings suggest a rich and complex phase diagram, in which defect chemistry, polarization, structure and magnetism can be modified using chemical potential, strain, and electric or magnetic fields.

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