Evidence for polarized nanoregions from the domain dynamics in multiferroic LiCuVO 4

LiCuVO is a model system of a 1D spin-1/2 chain that enters a planar spin-spiral ground state below its Néel temperature of 2.4 K due to competing nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions. The spin-spiral state is multiferroic with an electric polarization along the a axis which has been propo...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2019-12, Vol.9 (1), p.4391
Main Authors: Grams, Christoph P, Kopatz, Severin, Brüning, Daniel, Biesenkamp, Sebastian, Becker, Petra, Bohatý, Ladislav, Lorenz, Thomas, Hemberger, Joachim
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description LiCuVO is a model system of a 1D spin-1/2 chain that enters a planar spin-spiral ground state below its Néel temperature of 2.4 K due to competing nearest and next nearest neighbor interactions. The spin-spiral state is multiferroic with an electric polarization along the a axis which has been proposed to be caused purely by the spin supercurrent mechanism. With external magnetic fields in c direction T can be suppressed down to 0 K at 7.4 T. Here we report dynamical measurements of the polarization from P(E)-hysteresis loops, magnetic field dependent pyro-current and non-linear dielectric spectroscopy as well as thermal expansion and magnetostriction measurements at very low temperatures. The multiferroic transition is accompanied by strong anomalies in the thermal expansion and magnetostriction coefficients and we find slow switching times of electric domain reversal. Both observations suggest a sizable magnetoelastic coupling in LiCuVO . By analyzing the non-linear polarization dynamics we derive domain sizes in the nm range that are probably caused by Li defects.
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