Frustration of magnetic and ferroelectric long-range order in Bi 2Mn4/3Ni2/3O6

John B. Claridge, Helen Hughes, Craig A. Bridges, Mathieu Allix, Matthew R. Suchomel, Hongjun Niu, Xiaojun Kuang, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Natalia Bellido, Dominique Grebille, Olivier Perez, Charles Simon, Denis Pelloquin, Stephen J. Blundell, Tom Lancaster, Peter J. Baker, Francis L. Pratt, P. Shiv Halasyamani

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Abstract

The slight incommensurate modulation of the structure of Bi 2Mn4/3Ni2/3O6 is sufficient to suppress the electrical polarization which arises in commensurate treatments of the structure, due to antiferroelectric coupling of local polar units of over 900 Å3. The incommensurate structure is produced by the competition between ferroelectric Bi lone pair-driven A site displacement, chemical order of Mn and Ni on the B site, and both charge and orbital order at these transition metals. The interplay between the frustrated polar Bi displacements and the frustrated spin order at the B site, induced by positional disorder, produces magnetodielectric coupling between the incommensurately modulated lattice and the spin-glass-like ground state with an unusual relationship between the magnetocapacitance and the applied field.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14000-14017
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume131
Issue number39
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 7 2009
Externally publishedYes

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