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Title: Successive field-induced transitions in BiFeO 3 around room temperature

Journal Article · · Physical Review Materials
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  1. Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Japan). The Inst. for Solid State Physics (ISSP)
  2. National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (Japan)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Quantum Condensed Matter Division
  4. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). NIST Center for Neutron Research
  5. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States). NIST Center for Neutron Research; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  6. Fukuoka Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Applied Physics
  7. Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Sagamihara (Japan). Dept. of Physics and Mathematics

The effects of high magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization on single crystals of BiFeO3 were investigated in this paper through magnetization, magnetostriction, and neutron diffraction measurements. The magnetostriction measurements revealed lattice distortion of 2 x 10-5 during the reorientation process of the cycloidal spin order by applied magnetic fields. Furthermore, anomalous changes in magnetostriction and electric polarization at a larger field demonstrate an intermediate phase between cycloidal and canted antiferromagnetic states, where a large magnetoelectric effect was observed. Neutron diffraction measurements clarified that incommensurate spin modulation along the [110]hex direction in the cycloidal phase becomes Q = 0 commensurate along this direction in the intermediate phase. Finally, theoretical calculations based on the standard spin Hamiltonian of this material suggest an antiferromagnetic cone-type spin order in the intermediate phase.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa (Japan); National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba (Japan)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Dept. of Commerce (United States); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Japan); Murata Science Foundation (Japan)
Contributing Organization:
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Sagamihara (Japan); Fukuoka Univ. (Japan)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; JP16K05413
OSTI ID:
1376426
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1372421
Journal Information:
Physical Review Materials, Vol. 1, Issue 2; ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 21 works
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