Origin of spin-driven ferroelectricity and effect of external pressure on the complex magnetism of 6H-perovskite Ba3HoRu2O9

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Main Authors: Kushwaha, E., Roy, G., Kumar, M., Santos, A. M. dos, Ghosh, S., Adroja, D. T., Caignaert, V., Perez, O., Pautrat, A., Basu, T.
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author Kushwaha, E.
Roy, G.
Kumar, M.
Santos, A. M. dos
Ghosh, S.
Adroja, D. T.
Caignaert, V.
Perez, O.
Pautrat, A.
Basu, T.
author_facet Kushwaha, E.
Roy, G.
Kumar, M.
Santos, A. M. dos
Ghosh, S.
Adroja, D. T.
Caignaert, V.
Perez, O.
Pautrat, A.
Basu, T.
contents The compound Ba3HoRu2O9 magnetically orders at 50 K (TN1) followed by another complex magnetic ordering at 10.2 K (TN2). The 2nd magnetic phase transition was characterized by the co-existence of two competing magnetic ground states associated with two different magnetic wave vectors (K1=1/2 0 0 and K2=1/4 1/4 0). Here, we have discussed the origin of spin-driven ferroelectricity, which is not known yet. We demonstrate through time-of-flight Neutron diffraction and theoretical calculation that the non-collinear structure involving two different magnetic ions, Ru(4d) and Ho(4f), break the spatial inversion symmetry via inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (D-M) interaction through strong 4d-4f magnetic correlation, which shifts the oxygen atoms and results in non-zero polarization. Such an observation of inverse D-M interaction from two different magnetic ions which caused ferroelectricity is rarely observed. We have systematically studied the spin and dipolar dynamics, which exhibit intriguing behavior with shorter coherence lengths of 2nd magnetic phase associated with the k2-wave vector. The results manifest the development of finite-size magnetoelectric domains instead of true long-range ordering which justifies the experimentally obtained low value of ferroelectric polarization. The synchrotron XRD analysis predicts a non-centrosymmetric space group P-62c. Furthermore, we have investigated the effect of external pressure on this complex magnetism. The result reveals an enhancement of ordering temperature by the application of external pressure (1.6 K/GPa). The external pressure might favor stabilizing the magnetic ground state associated with 2nd magnetic phase. Our study shows an unconventional mechanism of spin-driven ferroelectricity.
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spellingShingle Origin of spin-driven ferroelectricity and effect of external pressure on the complex magnetism of 6H-perovskite Ba3HoRu2O9
Kushwaha, E.
Roy, G.
Kumar, M.
Santos, A. M. dos
Ghosh, S.
Adroja, D. T.
Caignaert, V.
Perez, O.
Pautrat, A.
Basu, T.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
The compound Ba3HoRu2O9 magnetically orders at 50 K (TN1) followed by another complex magnetic ordering at 10.2 K (TN2). The 2nd magnetic phase transition was characterized by the co-existence of two competing magnetic ground states associated with two different magnetic wave vectors (K1=1/2 0 0 and K2=1/4 1/4 0). Here, we have discussed the origin of spin-driven ferroelectricity, which is not known yet. We demonstrate through time-of-flight Neutron diffraction and theoretical calculation that the non-collinear structure involving two different magnetic ions, Ru(4d) and Ho(4f), break the spatial inversion symmetry via inverse Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (D-M) interaction through strong 4d-4f magnetic correlation, which shifts the oxygen atoms and results in non-zero polarization. Such an observation of inverse D-M interaction from two different magnetic ions which caused ferroelectricity is rarely observed. We have systematically studied the spin and dipolar dynamics, which exhibit intriguing behavior with shorter coherence lengths of 2nd magnetic phase associated with the k2-wave vector. The results manifest the development of finite-size magnetoelectric domains instead of true long-range ordering which justifies the experimentally obtained low value of ferroelectric polarization. The synchrotron XRD analysis predicts a non-centrosymmetric space group P-62c. Furthermore, we have investigated the effect of external pressure on this complex magnetism. The result reveals an enhancement of ordering temperature by the application of external pressure (1.6 K/GPa). The external pressure might favor stabilizing the magnetic ground state associated with 2nd magnetic phase. Our study shows an unconventional mechanism of spin-driven ferroelectricity.
title Origin of spin-driven ferroelectricity and effect of external pressure on the complex magnetism of 6H-perovskite Ba3HoRu2O9
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13465