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Theory of magnetic field control on polarization in multiferroic RCrO3 compounds

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A microscopic mechanism to describe the magnetic field H dependence of the polarization P is proposed on the basis of a microscopic model for RCrO3 including the spin-phonon interaction. Using the Green’s function theory in Peierls systems we have studied the two contributions to P due to the antisymmetric exchange Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction P AS and the magnetostriction P MS . The behaviour of P(H) – increase or decrease – in different multiferroics can be explained in our model taking into account the second order spin-phonon interaction constants. When a magnetic field is applied to a magnetoelectric material, the material is strained. H changes the average of the spin operator products and so P. Moreover, H renormalizes the elastic constant which explains the strain effect. From here we have found a qualitative relationship between pressure and magnetic field effects on P. The observed results are in good qualitatively agreement with the experimental data.

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    Angel T. Apostolov

  2. University of Forestry, Faculty of Forest Industry, Kl. Ohridsky Blvd. 10, 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Iliana N. Apostolova

  3. University of Sofia, Department of Physics, J. Bouchier Blvd. 5, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Apostolov, A., Apostolova, I. & Wesselinowa, J. Theory of magnetic field control on polarization in multiferroic RCrO3 compounds. Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 328 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2015-60649-4

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