Switching of the Chiral Magnetic Domains in the Hybrid Molecular/Inorganic Multiferroic (ND4)2[FeCl5(D2O)]

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作者
Rodriguez-Velamazan, J. Alberto [1 ]
Fabelo, Oscar [1 ]
Campo, Javier [2 ]
Rodriguez-Carvajal, Juan [1 ]
Qureshi, Navid [1 ]
Chapon, Laurent C. [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Inst Laue Langevin, 71 Ave Martyrs,CS 20156, F-38042 Grenoble 9, France
[2] Univ Zaragoza, CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat Aragon, C Pedro Cerbuna 12, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
[3] Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Sci & Innovat Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, Oxon, England
来源
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 2018年 / 8卷
关键词
POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; REVERSAL;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-018-28883-z
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
(ND4)(2)[FeCl5(D2O)] represents a promising example of the hybrid molecular/inorganic approach to create materials with strong magneto-electric coupling. Neutron spherical polarimetry, which is directly sensitive to the absolute magnetic configuration and domain population, has been used in this work to unambiguously prove the multiferroicity of this material. We demonstrate that the application of an electric field upon cooling results in the stabilization of a single-cycloidal magnetic domain below 6.9 K, while poling in the opposite electric field direction produces the full population of the domain with opposite magnetic chirality. We prove the complete switchability of the magnetic domains at low temperature by the applied electric field, which constitutes a direct proof of the strong magnetoelectric coupling. Additionally, we refine the magnetic structure of the ordered ground state, deducing the underlying magnetic space group consistent with the direction of the ferroelectric polarization, and we provide evidence of a collinear amplitude-modulated state with magnetic moments along the a-axis in the temperature region between 6.9 and 7.2 K.
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