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Multiferroism can originate from the breaking of inversion symmetry caused by magnetic-spiral order. The usual mechanism for stabilizing a magnetic spiral is competition between magnetic exchange interactions differing by their range and…

Cupric oxide is multiferroic at unusual high temperatures. From density functional calculations we find that the low-T magnetic phase is paraelectric and the higher-T one ferroelectric, with a size and direction of polarization in good…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-22 Gianluca Giovannetti , Sanjeev Kumar , Alessandro Stroppa , Jeroen van den Brink , Silvia Picozzi , Jose Lorenzana

Spin waves and coupling of the spin waves with electromagnetic waves are considered in the multiferroic materials with the electric dipole moment proportional to the scalar product of spins. Nature of this interaction is discussed within…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Pavel A. Andreev

Nonequilibrium electron spin polarization is calculated under spin injection from one ferromagnet to another in magnetic junction. It is shown that the nonequilibrium spin polarization can be comparable with equilibrium one if the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman , A. I. Krikunov

Multiferroics exhibit significant potential for low-power spintronic devices due to magnetoelectric coupling. Here, we discuss an emerging class of altermagnetic multiferroics, a system demonstrating distinct advantages including zero net…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Sun , Changhong Yang , Xiaotian Wang , Shifeng Huang , Zhenxiang Cheng

The noncollinear cycloidal magnetic order breaks the inversion symmetry in CaMn$_{7}$O$_{12}$, generating one of the largest spin-orbit driven ferroelectric polarizations measured to date. In this Letter, the microscopic origin of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Jin Soo Lim , Diomedes Saldana-Greco , Andrew M. Rappe

Magnetic, dielectric, and magnetoelectric properties in a spin-state transition system are examined, motivated by the recent discovery of a multiferroic behavior in a cobalt oxide. We construct an effective model Hamiltonian based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Makoto Naka , Eriko Mizoguchi , Joji Nasu , Sumio Ishihara

Flexoelectricity is characterised by the coupling of the gradient of the deformation and the electrical polarization in a dielectric material. A novel micromorphic approach is presented to accommodate the resulting higher-order gradient…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Andrew McBride , Denis Davydov , Paul Steinmann

We investigate the origin of the coplanar helicoidal magnetic structure and the ferroelectric polarization in Cu3Nb2O8 by combining first-principles calculations and our spin-induced ferroelectric polarization model. The coplanar helicoidal…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-06 Zheng-Lu Li , M. -H. Whangbo , X. G. Gong , H. J. Xiang

We derive the effective charge- and current-density operators for the strong-coupling limit of a single-band Mott insulator in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and show that the spin-orbit contribution to the effective charge density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Shan Zhu , You-Quan Li , Cristian D. Batista

We study theoretically the influence of the underlying domain microstructure on the electromechanical properties of ferroelectrics. Our calculations are based on a continuum approach that incorporates the long-range elastic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajeev Ahluwalia , Turab Lookman , Avadh Saxena , Wenwu Cao

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of magnetoelectric (ME) coupling mechanisms in 19 altermagnetic and 4 ferrimagnetic Type-I multiferroics using electronic band structure calculations with spin-orbit coupling, a…

The magnetic-field-induced 90-degree flop of ferroelectric polarization P in a spin-spiral multiferroic material TbMnO3 is theoretically studied based on a microscopic spin model. We find that the direction of the P-flop or the choice of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 Masahito Mochizuki

We explore computationally the formation of tri-layer superlattices as an alternative approach for combining ferroelectricity with magnetism to form magnetoelectric multiferroics. We find that the contribution to the superlattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 Alison J. Hatt , Nicola A. Spaldin

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

A multiferroic state with both electric polarization ($P$) and magnetization ($M$) shows the inherently strong $P$-$M$ coupling, when $P$ is induced by cycloidal (N\'eel-wall like) spin modulation. The sign of $P$ is determined by clockwise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-20 Daiki Yamaguchi , Aki Kitaori , Naoto Nagaosa , Yoshinori Tokura

Ferromagnetic polarons are self trapped states of an electron in a locally spin polarised environment. They occur close to the magnetic $T_c$ in low carrier density local moment magnets when the electron-spin coupling is comparable to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Tanmoy Mondal , Pinaki Majumdar