Unusual magnetoelectric effect in paramagnetic rare-earth langasite

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Unusual magnetoelectric effect in paramagnetic rare-earth langasite
المؤلفون: Weymann, L., Bergen, L., Kain, Th., Pimenov, Anna, Shuvaev, A., Constable, E., Szaller, D., Pimenov, A., Mill, B. V., Kuzmenko, A. M., Ivanov, V. Yu., Kostyuchenko, N. V., Popov, A. I., Zvezdin, A. K., Mukhin, A. A., Mostovoy, M.
المصدر: npj Quantum Mater. 5, 61 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
الوصف: Violation of time reversal and spatial inversion symmetries has profound consequences for elementary particles and cosmology. Spontaneous breaking of these symmetries at phase transitions gives rise to unconventional physical phenomena in condensed matter systems, such as ferroelectricity induced by magnetic spirals, electromagnons, non-reciprocal propagation of light and spin waves, and the linear magnetoelectric (ME) effect - the electric polarization proportional to the applied magnetic field and the magnetization induced by the electric field. Here, we report the experimental study of the holmium-doped langasite, Ho$_{x}$La$_{3-x}$Ga$_5$SiO$_{14}$, showing a puzzling combination of linear and highly non-linear ME responses in the disordered paramagnetic state: its electric polarization grows linearly with the magnetic field but oscillates many times upon rotation of the magnetic field vector. We propose a simple phenomenological Hamiltonian describing this unusual behavior and derive it microscopically using the coupling of magnetic multipoles of the rare-earth ions to the electric field.
Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41535-020-00263-9
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05357
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2004.05357
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1038/s41535-020-00263-9