Physics of multiferroic hexagonal manganites RMnO 3 Je-Geun
Park Sungkyunkwan University KIAS 29 October 2005
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Outline Introduction Part 1: Phonon scattering due to
short-ranged spin fluctuations of YMnO 3 Part 2: Direct evidence of
coupling among spin, lattice, and electric dipole moment for YMnO 3
and LuMnO 3 Part 3: Doping and Pressure effects on the magnetic
structure Summary
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What is multiferroic behavior? Ferromagnetism Fe 3 O 4
Ferroelectricity PbTiO 3 Examples : Ni 3 B 7 O 13 I, BiMnO 3, BiFeO
3, RMnO 3 (R=Ho-Lu, Sc, Y), RMn 2 O 5 (R=Tb,Dy)
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Renaissance of Multiferroic Multiple State Memory Device Write
E / Read M Write M / Read E Magnetic valve Data storage Tunable
sensors Spin transistor Key Issue : Coupling among P, M, and N. A.
Spaldin and M. Fiebig Science (2005)
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T. Lottermoser et al., Nature (2004) HoMnO 3 Control of
Magnetic Phase by E
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Controlling Polarization by Magnetic field N. Hur, S.-W. Cheong
et al., Nature (2003) A similar demonstration was presented by
Prof. Tokuras group for TbMnO 3. see T. Kimura Nature (2003)
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Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites RMnO 3
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antiferromagnet ic ordering temperature (K) ferroelectric
ordering temperature (K) a () c () ScMnO 3 129~ 9005.83311.17 YMnO
3 809146.13911.39 HoMnO 3 76~ 9006.14211.42 ErMnO 3 808306.11211.40
TmMnO 3 86~ 9006.09211.37 YbMnO 3 879836.06211.36 LuMnO 3 96~
9006.04211.37 Summary of properties of Hexagonal Manganites
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T.Katsufuji et al., PRB (2001) Wo-chul Yi et al.Appl. Phys.
Lett., (1998) Ferroelectric Antiferromagnetic Multiferroic
Behavior
Crystal field level of Mn 3+ Orthorhombic manganites
Jahn-Teller active egeg t 2g 3z 2 -r 2 x 2 -y 2 xz,yz xy Hexagonal
manganites J. S. Kang, JGP et al., PRB 71, 092405 (2005)
Jahn-Teller inactive egeg t 2g x 2 -y 2 yzxz xy 1.7 eV : IR 5~6 eV
: PES 3z 2 -r 2
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antiferromagnet ic ordering temperature (K) ferroelectric
ordering temperature (K) a () c () ScMnO 3 129~ 9005.83311.17 YMnO
3 809146.13911.39 HoMnO 3 76~ 9006.14211.42 ErMnO 3 808306.11211.40
TmMnO 3 86~ 9006.09211.37 YbMnO 3 879836.06211.36 LuMnO 3 96~
9006.04211.37 Origin of FE transition?
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The ferroelectric instability is due to Y-O displacement, which
is accompanied by MnO 5 rotation. See B. van Aken et al., Nature
Materials (2004)
Irreducible representations 1 representation 2 representation 3
representation 4 representation A. Munoz et al., PRB (2000)
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11 33 a () = 6.1208(1) b () = 11.4015(2) V ( 3 ) = 369.91(1) a
() = 6.1208(1) b () = 11.4015(2) V ( 3 ) = 369.91(1) Magnetic
Moment ( B ) 3.30(2) Magnetic Moment ( B ) 3.25(2) Reliability
factors R p = 5.79 % R wp = 7.93 % R mag = 7.88 % 2 = 2.70
Reliability factors R p = 5.83 % R wp = 7.98 % R mag = 7.35 % 2 =
2.74 Magnetic structure YMnO 3 Junghwan Park, JGP et al., Applied
Physics A (2002)
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Inelastic Neutron Scattering of YMnO 3 Junghwan Park, JGP et
al., Phys.Rev.B (2003) J=3 meV, =0.95, D=0.03 meV
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Spin dynamics of single crystal YMnO 3 T. Sato et al.,
Phys.Rev. B (2003) J 1 =-3.4(2) meV, J 2 =-2.02(7) meV J 1 -J 2
=0.014(2) meV D 1 =-0.028(1) meV D 2 =0.0007(6) meV
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Questions What are the effects due to the short-ranged magnetic
fluctuations on their physical properties? How are the magnetic and
electric dipole moments coupled to one another? What are doping
effects on the magnetic properties?
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Part 1: Phonon scattering due to short- ranged spin
fluctuations of YMnO 3 Phys. Rev. B 68, 1004426 (2003) Phys. Rev.
Lett. 93, 177202 (2004)
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Geometrical frustration Triangular lattice with AF interaction
Part 1 YMnO 3
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Diffuse scattering seen in YMnO 3 well above T N : Evidence of
short ranged magnetic correlation, i.e. spin liquid phase Data
taken at HANARO, Korean research reactor Part 1 HANARO 30MW
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: measured difference curve : the form factor of Mn 3+ : the
distance between nearest neighboring spins E.F. Bertaut et al.
Solid State Commun. 5, 279(1967) 80 K Data subtracted off by the
300 K data Part 1
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Fitting of I(Q)/F 2 (Q) of YMnO 3 Part 1 Junghwan Park, JGP et
al., Phys.Rev.B (2003)
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Spin liquid phase in the paramagnetic phase Part 1
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Additional scattering of acoustic phonons due to spin liquid
phase Part 1
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YMnO 3 P. Sharma, JGP et al., PRL (2004) ()() Part 1
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Part 2: Direct evidence of coupling among spin, lattice, and
electric moments for YMnO 3 and LuMnO 3 Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm.
71, 180413 (2005)
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()() c ( ) Junghwan Park, JGP et al., Applied Physics A (2002)
Temperature dependence of moment and lattice constants exex eyey
plane z=0 plane z=1/2 1 magnetic structure Part 2
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Temperature dependence of a, c, and volume up to 1200 K : High
temperature neutron diffraction data HT: P 63/m mc LT: P 63 cm Part
2 J. Park, JGP (unpublished)
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SIRIUS High resolution and high intensity powder diffractometer
@ KENS Part 2
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Refinement results : TOF diffractometer SIRIUS at KEK 10K300K
Y(1)z0.2773(7)0.2727(8) Y(2)z0.2318(6)0.2320(7)
Mnx0.3423(1)0.3330(1) O(1)x0.3007(4)0.3076(4)
O(1)z0.1606(7)0.1625(7) O(2)x0.6399(4)0.6414(4)
O(2)z0.3339(7)0.3360(7) O(3)z0.4804(8)0.4754(9)
O(4)z0.0193(7)0.0163(8) R wp 6.29%4.19% RpRp 4.89%3.42% Part 2
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Temperature dependence of atom positions Refinement results
()() ()() ()() O1 O2 O3 O4 Mn Part 2
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u KEK YMnO 3 results Part 2
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Coupling among magnetic moments, lattice, electric dipole
moments Y : 3+ Mn ; 3+ O : 2- Part 2 Seongsu Lee et al., PRB
(2005)
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Part 3: Doping and Pressure Effects on the magnetic properties
Phys. Rev. B 72, 014402 (2005) JETP 82, 212 (2005)
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2D Triangular lattice of Mn moments O1 O2 O3 O4 Mn Part 3
2D Triangular lattice of Mn moments O1 O2 O3 O4 Mn Part 3
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Mn-site doping effects in Y(Mn,X)O 3 with X=Zn, Al, and Ru Part
3 Mixing of 1 and 2 structures
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1.Mixing of magnetic structure 1 1 + 2 : for 2.5 GPa, ord =
1.52 B with =60 o at 10K: 2.Diffuse scattering enhanced with
pressure Part 3 External Pressure Effects on YMnO 3
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Summary Spin liquid phase evidenced by the diffuse peaks
scatters acoustic phonons through unusually strong spin-phonon
coupling, which then gives rise to a significant reduction in
thermal conductivity in the paramagnetic phase. We have shown that
below T N the magnetic moments of YMnO 3 and LuMnO 3 are strongly
coupled to the lattice degrees of freedom with further coupling to
the ferroelectric moments. However, an underlying microscopic
mechanism for such a coupling is not clear yet. The magnetic ground
states of RMnO 3 are so subtle that even a small doping can induce
mixing between different magnetic states.
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Acknowledgements Seongsu Lee, Misun Kang, Jung Hoon Han, H. Y.
Choi, A. Pirogov: Sungkyunkwan University Changhee Lee: KAERI,
Korea W. Jo: Ewha Womans University, Korea S-W. Cheong: Rutgers
University, USA T. Kamiyama: KEK, Japan R. Bewley: ISIS, UK Jeongsu
Kang: Catholic University, Korea D. Kozlenko: Frank Laboratory,
Russia