2018/03/02 by J. Alberto Rodríguez-Velamazán, J. Alberto Rodríguez‐Velamazán, Rodríguez-Velamazán, J. Alberto +14
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Crystal Structures and Properties #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Perovskite Materials and Applications #Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.00826
arxiv created 2018/03/02 · openalex publication_date 2018/03/02 · arxiv updated 2018/03/05 · openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Neutron spherical polarimetry, which is directly sensitive to the absolute magnetic configuration and domain population, has been used in this work to unambiguously prove the multiferroicity of (ND4)2[FeCl5(D2O)]. We demonstrate that the application of an electric field upon cooling results in the stabilization of a single-cycloidal magnetic domain below 6.9 K, while poling in the opposite electric field direction produces the full population of the domain with opposite magnetic chirality. We prove the complete switchability of the magnetic domains at low temperature by the applied electric field, which constitutes a direct proof of the strong magnetoelectric coupling. Additionally, we refine the magnetic structure of the ordered ground state, determining the underlying magnetic space group consistent with the direction of the ferroelectric polarization, and we provide evidence of a collinear amplitude-modulated state with magnetic moments along the a-axis in the temperature region between 6.9 and 7.2 K.