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Temperature- and magnetic-field-tuning of magnetic phases in multiferroic NdFe3(BO3)4

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We report the low-temperature coexistence in NdFe3(BO3)4 of an incommensurate magnetic phase with a strained commensurate magnetic phase that is primarily at the surface of the crystal. Increasing the temperature or magnetic field decreases the incommensurability and stabilizes the commensurate magnetic phase above T ic ≈ 14 K or H ic = 0.9 T. A comparison to published studies indicates the onset of longitudinal magnetostriction and electric polarization at the magnetic-field-induced transition, which may arise due to a basal plane spin-flop and canting of moments along the field direction.

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  1. Photon Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA

    Christie S. Nelson

  2. L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    Leonard N. Bezmaternykh & Irina A. Gudim

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Nelson, C.S., Bezmaternykh, L.N. & Gudim, I.A. Temperature- and magnetic-field-tuning of magnetic phases in multiferroic NdFe3(BO3)4 . Journal of the Korean Physical Society 62, 1410–1413 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.62.1410

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