Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.014116
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea [2012R1A1A2041628]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
- KISTI Supercomputing Centre [KSC-2012-C2-22]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2012R1A1A2041628] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Orthorhombic YMO3 (o-YMO) is currently being intensively investigated since a single-crystalline thin film of o-YMO recently showed a pronounced degree of magnetoelectric coupling. According to first-principles calculations, the ferroelectric ground state is represented by two degenerate E-type collinear spin configurations with the computed polarization P of similar to 1.4 mu C/cm(2). The bc-cycloidal spin phase is identified as the spin configuration that corresponds to the transition state in the + P <-> -P polarization switching. The remarkable coexistence of the E-type and cycloidal spin phases below similar to 40 K is attributed to a small value of the Kohn-Sham energy difference between these two phases, 2.2 meV per formula unit. A modulated spin structure, which is characterized by the tilting of the Mn-spin vectors to the a-axis direction of Pbnm setting, is proposed to account for the observed strong magnetic-field-dependent polarization in o-YMO.
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