2016/12/22 by S W Lovesey, Lovesey, S W, D. D. Khalyavin +2
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Multiferroics and related materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.07666
openalex publication_date 2016/12/22 · arxiv created 2017/01/17 · arxiv updated 2017/01/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Experimental techniques using Bragg diffraction may elucidate electronic and magnetic properties of ferric ions in multiferroic ScFeO3 that are puzzling. A collinear magnetic motif of dipole moments is not expected for s-state ions with an acentric parent (paramagnetic) structure, because single-site anisotropy is negligible and antisymmetric exchange interactions promote an inhomogeneous magnetic motif. However, current indications are that ScFeO3 supports G-type antiferromagnetism, with an unknown moment direction, which implies that ferric ions are not in the high-spin 6S state. It is argued that significant insight on these open questions can be achieved by confronting experimental data with calculated structure factors for resonant x-ray and magnetic neutron Bragg spots, and we report results for G-type antiferromagnetism allowed by the corundum-like parent R3c structure. Calculated structure factors include Dirac multipoles that are time-odd and parity-odd, e.g., dipoles that are often called anapoles or toroidal moments.