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3:1 Magnetization Plateau and Suppression of Ferroelectric Polarization in an Ising Chain Multiferroic
Published
Author(s)
Y.-J. Jo, Seoungsu Lee, E. Choi, H. Yi, William D. Ratcliff, Y. Choi, V. Kiryukhin, S.-W. Cheong, L. Balicas
Abstract
Ferroelectric Ising chain magnet Ca3Co2−xMnxO6 (x≃0.96) was studied in magnetic fields of up to 33 T. Magnetization and neutron-scattering measurements reveal successive metamagnetic transitions from the zero-field ↑↑↓↓ spin configuration to the ↑↑↑↓ state with a broad magnetization plateau, and then to the ↑↑↑↑ state. The absence of hysteresis in these plateaus reveals an intriguing coupling between the intrachain state and the three-dimensional geometrically frustrated magnetic system. Inversion symmetry, broken in the ↑↑↓↓ state, is restored in the ↑↑↑↓ state, leading to the complete suppression of the electric polarization driven by symmetric superexchange.
Jo, Y.
, Lee, S.
, Choi, E.
, Yi, H.
, Ratcliff, W.
, Choi, Y.
, Kiryukhin, V.
, Cheong, S.
and Balicas, L.
(2009),
3:1 Magnetization Plateau and Suppression of Ferroelectric Polarization in an Ising Chain Multiferroic, Physical Review B, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.012407, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=610002
(Accessed October 13, 2025)