Incommensurate crystal supercell and polarization flop observed in the magnetoelectric ilmenite MnTiO3

Silverstein, Harlyn J.; Skoropata, Elizabeth; Sarte, Paul M.; Mauws, Cole; Aczel, Adam A.; Choi, Eun Sang; van Lierop, Johan; Wiebe, Christopher R.; Zhou, Haidong

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054416

Incommensurate crystal supercell and polarization flop observed in the magnetoelectric ilmenite $MnTi O_{3}$

Journal Article · Fri Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054416· OSTI ID:1261515

Silverstein, Harlyn J. ^[1]; Skoropata, Elizabeth ^[2]; Sarte, Paul M. ^[3]; Mauws, Cole ^[2]; Aczel, Adam A. ^[4]; Choi, Eun Sang ^[5]; van Lierop, Johan ^[2]; Wiebe, Christopher R. ^[6]; Zhou, Haidong ^[7]

Unv. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada)
Unv. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
Unv. of Manitoba, Winnipeg (Canada); McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada); Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada)
Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

In the last few years the magnetoelectric behavior of MnTiO₃ has been observed even though its been studied for many decades. We use neutron scattering on two separately grown single crystals and two powder samples to show the presence of a supercell that breaks R (3) over bar symmetry. We also present the temperature and field dependence of the dielectric constant and pyroelectric current and show evidence of nonzero off-diagonal magnetoelectric tensor elements (forbidden by R (3) over bar symmetry) followed by a polarization flop accompanying the spin flop transition at mu H-0(SF) = 6.5T. Mossbauer spectroscopy on MnTiO₃ gently doped with Fe-57 was used to help shed light on the impact of the supercell on the observed behavior. Moreover, the full supercell structure could not be solved at this time due to a lack of visible reflections, the full scope of the results presented here suggest that the role of local spin-lattice coupling in the magnetoelectric properties of MnTiO₃ is likely more important than previously thought.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1261515

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1238414

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 93; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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