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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus
MA 20: Poster I - Biomagnetism, FePt Nanoparticles, Magnetic Particles/Clusters, Magnetic Materials, Magnetic Semiconductors, Half-metals/Oxides, Multiferroics, Topological Insulators, Spin structures/Phase transitions, Electron theory/Computational micromagnetics, Magnetic coupling phenomena/Exchange bias, Spin-dependent transport, Spin injection/spin currents, Magnetization/Demagnetization dynamics, Magnetic measurement techniques
MA 20.37: Poster
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:15–15:15, Poster A
Influence of the strength of the magnetoelectric coupling on the electric field induced magnetization reversal in a composite multiferroic chain — Paul P. Horley1, Alexander Sukhov2, Chenglong Jia2, Eduardo Martinez1, and •Jamal Berakdar2 — 1Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV S.C.), Chihuahua/Monterrey, 31109 Chihuahua, Mexico — 2Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
A theoretical study of the multiferroic dynamics in a composite one-dimensional system consisting of unstrained BaTiO3 multiferroically coupled to an iron chain is presented. The method [1] is based on the thermodynamical treatment of the magnetization and the polarization quantitatively described via the Landau-Lifshits-Gilbert and the Landau-Khalatnikov equations (both at T=0 K) coupled via an additional term in the total free energy. The coupling originates from the screening charge induced in the ferromagnet by the ferroelectric polarization in a very narrow interfacial layer. For real parameters corresponding to the rhombohedral phase of BaTiO3 and for bcc iron and for a wide range of strengths of this coupling we predict the possibility of obtaining a well-developed hysteresis in the ferromagnetic part of the system induced by an external electric field. We also inspect the dependence of the reversal modes on the electric field frequency and predict a considerable stability of the magnetization reversal for frequencies in the range of 0.5÷12[GHz]. [1] A. Sukhov et al., J. Phys.: Cond. Matter 22, 352201 (2010); Ferroelectrics (at press).