Magnetoelectric and magnetoelastic interactions in NdFe3(BO3)4 multiferroics |
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| Authors: | A K Zvezdin G P Vorob’ev A M Kadomtseva Yu F Popov A P Pyatakov L N Bezmaternykh A V Kuvardin E A Popova |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia;(2) Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia;(3) Kirenskii Institute of Physics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Complex experimental and theoretical investigations of the magnetic, magnetoelectric, and magnetoelastic properties of neodymium iron borate NdFe3(BO3)4 along various crystallographic directions have been carried out in strong pulsed magnetic fields up to 230 kOe in a temperature range of 4.2–50 K. It has been found that neodymium iron borate, as well as gadolinium iron borate, is a multiferroic. It has a much larger (above 300 μC/m2) electric polarization controlled by the magnetic field and giant quadratic magnetoelectric effect. The exchange field between the rare-earth and iron subsystems (～50 kOe) has been determined for the first time from experimental data. The theoretical analysis based on the magnetic symmetry and quantum properties of the Nd ion in the crystal provides an explanation of the unusual behavior of the magnetoelectric and magnetoelastic properties of neodymium iron borate in strong magnetic fields and correlation observed between them. |
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