論文

査読有り 筆頭著者
2017年6月

Coupled multiferroic domain switching in the canted conical spin spiral system Mn2GeO4

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • T. Honda
  • ,
  • J. S. White
  • ,
  • A. B. Harris
  • ,
  • L. C. Chapon
  • ,
  • A. Fennell
  • ,
  • B. Roessli
  • ,
  • O. Zaharko
  • ,
  • Y. Murakami
  • ,
  • M. Kenzelmann
  • ,
  • T. Kimura

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1038/ncomms15457
出版者・発行元
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Despite remarkable progress in developing multifunctional materials, spin-driven ferroelectrics featuring both spontaneous magnetization and electric polarization are still rare. Among such ferromagnetic ferroelectrics are conical spin spiral magnets with a simultaneous reversal of magnetization and electric polarization that is still little understood. Such materials can feature various multiferroic domains that complicates their study. Here we study the multiferroic domains in ferromagnetic ferroelectric Mn2GeO4 using neutron diffraction, and show that it features a double-Q conical magnetic structure that, apart from trivial 180 degrees commensurate magnetic domains, can be described by ferromagnetic and ferroelectric domains only. We show unconventional magnetoelectric couplings such as the magnetic-field-driven reversal of ferroelectric polarization with no change of spin-helicity, and present a phenomenological theory that successfully explains the magnetoelectric coupling. Our measurements establish Mn2GeO4 as a conceptually simple multiferroic in which the magnetic-field-driven flop of conical spin spirals leads to the simultaneous reversal of magnetization and electric polarization.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15457
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000402744800001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題
オリビン型遷移金属酸化物における新規電子物性の創成及びその解明
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/ncomms15457
  • ISSN : 2041-1723
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000402744800001

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