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A three-order-parameter bistable magnetoelectric multiferroic metal.


ABSTRACT: Using first-principles calculations we predict that the layered-perovskite metal Bi5Mn5O17 is a ferromagnet, ferroelectric, and ferrotoroid which may realize the long sought-after goal of a room-temperature ferromagnetic single-phase multiferroic with large, strongly coupled, primary-order polarization and magnetization. Bi5Mn5O17 has two nearly energy-degenerate ground states with mutually orthogonal vector order parameters (polarization, magnetization, ferrotoroidicity), which can be rotated globally by switching between ground states. Giant cross-coupling magnetoelectric and magnetotoroidic effects, as well as optical non-reciprocity, are thus expected. Importantly, Bi5Mn5O17 should be thermodynamically stable in O-rich growth conditions, and hence experimentally accessible.

SUBMITTER: Urru A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7530708 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A three-order-parameter bistable magnetoelectric multiferroic metal.

Urru Andrea A   Ricci Francesco F   Filippetti Alessio A   Íñiguez Jorge J   Fiorentini Vincenzo V  

Nature communications 20201001 1


Using first-principles calculations we predict that the layered-perovskite metal Bi<sub>5</sub>Mn<sub>5</sub>O<sub>17</sub> is a ferromagnet, ferroelectric, and ferrotoroid which may realize the long sought-after goal of a room-temperature ferromagnetic single-phase multiferroic with large, strongly coupled, primary-order polarization and magnetization. Bi<sub>5</sub>Mn<sub>5</sub>O<sub>17</sub> has two nearly energy-degenerate ground states with mutually orthogonal vector order parameters (pola  ...[more]

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