Antiferromagnetic spin canting and magnetoelectric multipoles in h-YMnO3
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2023-03
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Hexagonal YMnO3 is a prototype antiferromagnet which exhibits multiferroic behavior with the ferroelectric and magnetic transitions occurring at different temperatures. We observe an out-of-plane canting of the Mn3+ magnetic moments using resonant x-ray diffraction (RXD) in a single crystal of this material. These canted moments result in the symmetry-forbidden (0,0,1) magnetic Bragg reflection, which is observed at the Mn L2,3 absorption edges. We also observe an unexpected difference in the RXD spectral shapes at different temperatures. Using ab initio calculations, we explore the possibility that this behavior arises due to the interference between scattering from the canted magnetic moments and parity-odd atomic multipoles on the Mn3+ ions.
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5 (1)
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13203
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American Physical Society
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03903 - Spaldin, Nicola A. / Spaldin, Nicola A.
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147606 - Toroidal moments and magnetic monopoles as complementary condensed-matter states (SNF)
NCCR MUST (183615) - NCCR MUST Verteilfonds (SNF)
NCCR MUST (183615) - NCCR MUST Verteilfonds (SNF)