Incommensurate crystal supercell and polarization flop observed in the magnetoelectric ilmenite
- 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.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1261515
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1238414
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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