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  • Title: Magnetically induced ferroelectricity in TbMnO(3): inverse Goodenough-Kanamori interaction.
    Author: Yamauchi K, Picozzi S.
    Journal: J Phys Condens Matter; 2009 Feb 11; 21(6):064203. PubMed ID: 21715906.
    Abstract:
    Improper ferroelectricity in magnets, as induced by non-centrosymmetric spin-, charge- or orbital-ordering, is a branch of the field of multiferroics having fascinating physics and a potentially important technological outcome. We focus here on ferroelectricity in orthorhombic TbMnO(3), where the magnetic field along the a-axis produces a polar collinear spin-arrangement with a rather large in-plane electric polarization. The mechanism, similar to that occurring in orthorhombic HoMnO(3) in the AFM-E phase, is efficiently driven by a large modification of the structural properties (such as MnO bond-lengths and Mn-O-Mn bond-angles) to favor e(g) electron hopping between Mn with parallel spins. A similar mechanism where the t(2g) states are involved is examined through a hypothetical collinear spin-structure, resulting in a weaker out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization.
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