Double frustration and magneto-electro-elastic excitations in collinear multiferroic materials
arXiv:2111.04896 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.115103
Abstract
We discuss a model scenario for multiferroic systems of type II (collinear spins) where the electric dipolar order competes with a frustrated magnetic order in determining the elastic distortions of the lattice ion positions. High magnetic frustration due to second neighbors exchange and small spin easy-axis anisotropy lead to the appearance of the so called quantum magnetic plateau states. Increasing the magnetic field above the plateau border produces composite excitations, where fractionalized spin tertions arise together with spontaneous dipolar flips (in the form of domain walls) and enhanced localized elastic distortions. This peculiar magneto-electric effect may be described by magneto-electric-elastic (MEE) quasiparticles that could be detected by X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques. Our results are supported by extensive DMRG computations on the spin sector and self-consistent equations for the lattice distortions.
12 pages, 10 figures, supplemental material
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