Spin-Induced Polarizations and Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism of the Room-Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3
Abstract
A microscopic model for the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 that includes two Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and single-ion anisotropy along the ferroelectric polarization predicts both the zero-field spectroscopic modes as well as their splitting and evolution in a magnetic field. Due to simultaneously broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries, the absorption of light changes as the magnetic field or the direction of light propagation is reversed. We discuss three physical mechanisms that may contribute to this absorption asymmetry known as directional dichroism: the spin current, magnetostriction, and single-ion anisotropy. We conclude that the directional dichroism in BiFeO3 is dominated by the spin-current polarization and is insensitive to the magnetostriction and easy-axis anisotropy. With three independent spin-current parameters, our model accurately describes the directional dichroism observed for magnetic field along [1, -1, 0]. Since some modes are almost transparent to light traveling in one direction but opaque for light traveling in the opposite direction, BiFeO3 can be used as a room-temperature optical diode at certain frequencies in the GHz to THz range. This work demonstrates that an analysis of the directional dichroism spectra based on an effective spin model supplemented by first-principles calculations can produce a quantitative microscopic theory of the magnetoelectric couplings in multiferroicmore »
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
- National Inst. of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Estonia)
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1214507
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- OSTI ID: 1215750
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- AC05-00OR22725
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Bordacs, Sandor, Kezsmarki, Istvan, Nagel, Urmas, and Room, Toomas. Spin-Induced Polarizations and Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism of the Room-Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.094422.
Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Bordacs, Sandor, Kezsmarki, Istvan, Nagel, Urmas, & Room, Toomas. Spin-Induced Polarizations and Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism of the Room-Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.094422
Fishman, Randy Scott, Lee, Jun Hee, Bordacs, Sandor, Kezsmarki, Istvan, Nagel, Urmas, and Room, Toomas. Mon .
"Spin-Induced Polarizations and Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism of the Room-Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.094422. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1214507.
@article{osti_1214507,
title = {Spin-Induced Polarizations and Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism of the Room-Temperature Multiferroic BiFeO3},
author = {Fishman, Randy Scott and Lee, Jun Hee and Bordacs, Sandor and Kezsmarki, Istvan and Nagel, Urmas and Room, Toomas},
abstractNote = {A microscopic model for the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 that includes two Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and single-ion anisotropy along the ferroelectric polarization predicts both the zero-field spectroscopic modes as well as their splitting and evolution in a magnetic field. Due to simultaneously broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries, the absorption of light changes as the magnetic field or the direction of light propagation is reversed. We discuss three physical mechanisms that may contribute to this absorption asymmetry known as directional dichroism: the spin current, magnetostriction, and single-ion anisotropy. We conclude that the directional dichroism in BiFeO3 is dominated by the spin-current polarization and is insensitive to the magnetostriction and easy-axis anisotropy. With three independent spin-current parameters, our model accurately describes the directional dichroism observed for magnetic field along [1, -1, 0]. Since some modes are almost transparent to light traveling in one direction but opaque for light traveling in the opposite direction, BiFeO3 can be used as a room-temperature optical diode at certain frequencies in the GHz to THz range. This work demonstrates that an analysis of the directional dichroism spectra based on an effective spin model supplemented by first-principles calculations can produce a quantitative microscopic theory of the magnetoelectric couplings in multiferroic materials.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.92.094422},
journal = {Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics},
number = 9,
volume = 92,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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