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Magnetoelectric coupling of domains, domain walls and vortices in a multiferroic with independent magnetic and electric order

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22587-1

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  1. EU European Research Council [694955-INSEETO]
  2. Swiss National Science Foundation [200021_178825]
  3. ETH Zurich
  4. European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [810451]
  5. Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) [s889]
  6. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_178825] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

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The article discusses the microscopic magnetoelectric coupling mechanism in magnetically induced ferroelectrics with separately emerging magnetic and ferroelectric order, demonstrating a strong coupling phenomenon and uncommon types of topological defects in the material.
Magnetically induced ferroelectrics exhibit rigidly coupled magnetic and electric order. The ordering temperatures and spontaneous polarization of these multiferroics are notoriously low, however. Both properties can be much larger if magnetic and ferroelectric order occur independently, but the cost of this independence is that pronounced magnetoelectric interaction is no longer obvious. Using spatially resolved images of domains and density-functional theory, we show that in multiferroics with separately emerging magnetic and ferroelectric order, the microscopic magnetoelectric coupling can be intrinsically strong even though the macroscopic leading-order magnetoelectric effect is forbidden by symmetry. We show, taking hexagonal ErMnO3 as an example, that a strong bulk coupling between the ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic order is realized because the structural distortions that lead to the ferroelectric polarization also break the balance of the competing superexchange contributions. We observe the manifestation of this coupling in uncommon types of topological defects like magnetoelectric domain walls and vortex-like singularities. In h-RMnO3, the linear magnetoelectric effect is symmetry forbidden. Here, the authors show a pronounced magnetoelectric coupling driven by superexchange interaction giving rise to types of topological defects like magnetoelectric domain walls and vortex-like singularities.

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