Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Magnetoelectric effect and phase transitions in CuO in external magnetic fields

  • Zhaosheng Wang,
  • Navid Qureshi,
  • Shadi Yasin,
  • Alexander Mukhin,
  • Eric Ressouche,
  • Sergei Zherlitsyn,
  • Yurii Skourski,
  • Julian Geshev,
  • Vsevolod Ivanov,
  • Marin Gospodinov,
  • Vassil Skumryev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10295
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Whilst CuO possesses spontaneous electrical polarization induced by its magnetic order, no magnetoelectric control of one by the other has been observed. Here, the authors demonstrate modification of the electrical polarization of CuO by suppressing its magnetic helix via an applied magnetic field.