Successive Magnetic-Field-Induced Transitions and Colossal Magnetoelectric Effect in Ni3TeO6

Kim, Jae Wook; Artyukhin, Sergei; Mun, Eun Deok; Jaime, Marcelo; Harrison, Neil; Hansen, Anders; Yang, J. J.; Oh, Yoon Seok; Vanderbilt, David; Zapf, Vivien S.; Cheong, Sang-Wook

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.137201

Successive Magnetic-Field-Induced Transitions and Colossal Magnetoelectric Effect in ${Ni}_{3} {TeO}_{6}$

Journal Article · Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.137201· OSTI ID:1325637

Kim, Jae Wook ^[1]; Artyukhin, Sergei ^[2]; Mun, Eun Deok ^[3]; Jaime, Marcelo ^[3]; Harrison, Neil ^[3]; Hansen, Anders ^[3]; Yang, J. J. ^[4]; Oh, Yoon Seok ^[4]; Vanderbilt, David ^[2]; Zapf, Vivien S. ^[3]; Cheong, Sang-Wook ^[4]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Inst. for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology (IAMDN)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

In this paper, we report the discovery of a metamagnetic phase transition in a polar antiferromagnet Ni₃TeO₆ that occurs at 52 T. The new phase transition accompanies a colossal magnetoelectric effect, with a magnetic-field-induced polarization change of 0.3 μC/cm², a value that is 4 times larger than for the spin-flop transition at 9 T in the same material, and also comparable to the largest magnetically induced polarization changes observed to date. Via density-functional calculations we construct a full microscopic model that describes the data. We model the spin structures in all fields and clarify the physics behind the 52 T transition. The high-field transition involves a competition between multiple different exchange interactions which drives the polarization change through the exchange-striction mechanism. Finally, the resultant spin structure is rather counterintuitive and complex, thus providing new insights on design principles for materials with strong magnetoelectric coupling.

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Research Organization:: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF) (United States); Rutgers Univ. (United States); State of Florida (United States); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1325637

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1224627

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--15-26440

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 13 Vol. 115; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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