Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
Spin-induced multiferroicity in the binary perovskite manganite Mn2O3
- Junzhuang Cong,
- Kun Zhai,
- Yisheng Chai,
- Dashan Shang,
- Dmitry D. Khalyavin,
- Roger D. Johnson,
- Denis P. Kozlenko,
- Sergey E. Kichanov,
- Artem M. Abakumov,
- Alexander A. Tsirlin,
- Leonid Dubrovinsky,
- Xueli Xu,
- Zhigao Sheng,
- Sergey V. Ovsyannikov,
- Young Sun
Affiliations
- Junzhuang Cong
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kun Zhai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yisheng Chai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dashan Shang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Dmitry D. Khalyavin
- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory-STFC
- Roger D. Johnson
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- Denis P. Kozlenko
- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Sergey E. Kichanov
- Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Artem M. Abakumov
- Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Alexander A. Tsirlin
- Experimental Physics VI, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg
- Leonid Dubrovinsky
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth
- Xueli Xu
- High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhigao Sheng
- High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Sergey V. Ovsyannikov
- Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth
- Young Sun
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05296-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Multiferroic binary oxides with the perovskite structure have been very rare. Here, Cong et al. report magnetically-driven ferroelectricity and a large magnetoelectric effect in a binary perovskite compound Mn2O3 at low temperatures.
