Flexomagnetoelectric effect in Sr2IrO4 thin films

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Autori principali: Liu, Xin, Hu, Ting, Zhang, Yujun, Xu, Xueli, Wu, Biao, Ma, Zongwei, Lv, Peng, Zhang, Yuelin, Huang, Shih-Wen, Wu, Jialu, Ma, Jing, Hong, Jiawang, Sheng, Zhigao, Jia, Chenglong, Kan, Erjun, Nan, Ce-Wen, Zhang, Jinxing
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author Liu, Xin
Hu, Ting
Zhang, Yujun
Xu, Xueli
Wu, Biao
Ma, Zongwei
Lv, Peng
Zhang, Yuelin
Huang, Shih-Wen
Wu, Jialu
Ma, Jing
Hong, Jiawang
Sheng, Zhigao
Jia, Chenglong
Kan, Erjun
Nan, Ce-Wen
Zhang, Jinxing
author_facet Liu, Xin
Hu, Ting
Zhang, Yujun
Xu, Xueli
Wu, Biao
Ma, Zongwei
Lv, Peng
Zhang, Yuelin
Huang, Shih-Wen
Wu, Jialu
Ma, Jing
Hong, Jiawang
Sheng, Zhigao
Jia, Chenglong
Kan, Erjun
Nan, Ce-Wen
Zhang, Jinxing
contents Symmetry engineering is explicitly effective to manipulate and even create phases and orderings in strongly correlated materials. Flexural stress is universally practical to break the space-inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Here, by introducing strain gradient in a centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Sr2IrO4, the space-inversion symmetry is broken accompanying a non-equivalent O p-Ir d orbital hybridization along z axis. Thus, emergent polar phase and out-of-plane magnetic moment have been simultaneously observed in these asymmetric Sr2IrO4 thin films, which both are absent in its ground state. Furthermore, upon the application of magnetic field, such polarization can be controlled by modifying the occupied d orbitals through spin-orbit interaction, giving rise to a flexomagnetoelectric effect. This work provides a general strategy to artificially design multiple symmetries and ferroic orderings in strongly correlated systems.
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spellingShingle Flexomagnetoelectric effect in Sr2IrO4 thin films
Liu, Xin
Hu, Ting
Zhang, Yujun
Xu, Xueli
Wu, Biao
Ma, Zongwei
Lv, Peng
Zhang, Yuelin
Huang, Shih-Wen
Wu, Jialu
Ma, Jing
Hong, Jiawang
Sheng, Zhigao
Jia, Chenglong
Kan, Erjun
Nan, Ce-Wen
Zhang, Jinxing
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Symmetry engineering is explicitly effective to manipulate and even create phases and orderings in strongly correlated materials. Flexural stress is universally practical to break the space-inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Here, by introducing strain gradient in a centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Sr2IrO4, the space-inversion symmetry is broken accompanying a non-equivalent O p-Ir d orbital hybridization along z axis. Thus, emergent polar phase and out-of-plane magnetic moment have been simultaneously observed in these asymmetric Sr2IrO4 thin films, which both are absent in its ground state. Furthermore, upon the application of magnetic field, such polarization can be controlled by modifying the occupied d orbitals through spin-orbit interaction, giving rise to a flexomagnetoelectric effect. This work provides a general strategy to artificially design multiple symmetries and ferroic orderings in strongly correlated systems.
title Flexomagnetoelectric effect in Sr2IrO4 thin films
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04541