Spin noncollinearlity in multiferroic phase of triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFe1-xAlxO2

Taro Nakajima; Setsuo Mitsuda; Shunsuke Kanetsuki; Karel Prokes; Andrei Podlesnyak; Hiroyuki Kimura; Yukio Noda

doi:10.1143/JPSJ.76.043709

Spin noncollinearlity in multiferroic phase of triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFe_1-xAl_xO₂

Taro Nakajima, Setsuo Mitsuda, Shunsuke Kanetsuki, Karel Prokes, Andrei Podlesnyak, Hiroyuki Kimura, Yukio Noda

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Abstract

We report a neutron diffraction study of the magnetic field- and impurity-induced ferroelectric states of the triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFe_1-xAl_xO₂. The magnetic structure of the ferroelectric phase was elucidated to be not a cycloidal structure, which can successfully lead to the electric polarization through the formula P ∝ e_ij x (S_i x S_j) [H. Katsura et al.: Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 057205], but a proper helical structure. Nevertheless, the fact that the helical magnetic ordering appears only in the ferroelectric phase among various magnetically ordered phases of CuFe_1-xAl_xO ₂ strongly suggests that a spin noncollinearlity is relevant to the multiferroic nature in CuFe_1-xAl_xO₂.

Original language	English
Article number	043709
Journal	journal of the physical society of japan
Volume	76
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.76.043709
Publication status	Published - 2007 Apr

Keywords

CuFeO
Multiferroic
Neutron diffraction
Spin frustration
Triangular lattice antiferromagnet

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Physics and Astronomy(all)

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