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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 9: Joint Session "Multiferroics II - Hexagonal Manganites / Incommensurate Multiferroics" (jointly with DF, DS, KR, TT)

MA 9.10: Talk

Monday, March 26, 2012, 17:45–18:00, EB 301

The multiferroic, geometric frustrated CuCrO2 compound: a case of the pd hybridization spin-charge coupling? — •Matthias Frontzek, Georg Ehlers, and Andrey Podlesnyak — Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA

Multiferroic materials have become of interest for their unusual low-temperature properties in general, and in particular for the observation that one can affect their magnetic structure through an electric field and their electric polarization through a magnetic field. The delafossite CuCrO2, which crystallizes in the rhombohedral R3m space group, is a multiferroic compound with an apparent strong coupling of spin and charge. In contrast to other multiferroic compounds CuCrO2 shows a spontaneous electric polarization upon antiferromagnetic ordering without an accompanying structural phase transition, although a slight in-plane lattice distortion has been measured.

In our contribution, we present a detailed study on CuCrO2 single crystals using neutron diffraction and spectroscopy as well as pulsed magnetic field measurements up to 60 T of the electric polarization. Based on our study we will show a revised magnetic structure model and present a model Hamiltonian including in-plane next-next nearest neighbor and inter-layer exchange interaction. We will stress the importance of the latter for the multiferroic properties and will show evidence based on the high field polarization measurements that the proposed pd hybridization spin-charge coupling mechanism needs to be modified.

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