Dresden 2020 – scientific programme
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KFM: Fachverband Kristalline Festkörper und deren Mikrostruktur
KFM 4: Multiferroics (joint session KFM/MA)
KFM 4.4: Talk
Monday, March 16, 2020, 16:00–16:20, HSZ 105
Magnetic Structure and Magnetoelectricity in Holmium-Doped Langasite — •Lukas Weymann1, Thomas Kain1, Lorenz Bergen1, Alexey Shuvaev1, Evan Constable1, David Szaller1, Artem M. Kuzmenko2, Alexander A. Mukhin2, Vsevolod Yu. Ivanov2, Nadezhda V. Kostyuchenko1,3, Maxim Mostovoy4, and Andrei Pimenov1 — 1Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria — 2Prokhorov General Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia — 3Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, Russia — 4Theory of Condensed Matter, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Groningen, The Netherlands
The compounds of the rare-earth langasite family R3Ga5SiO14 were investigated for their striking electromechanical properties in the early 1980s and attracted new scientific attention due to their intriguing magnetic and magnetoelectric properties in the past decade. In this work we present the results of a magnetoelectric effect, i.e. electric polarization induced by an external magnetic field, in the diluted holmium langasite.
This effect has an unusual angular dependence, which can be explained by taking into account the three-fold symmetry of the crystal and its rather complex magnetic structure. The latter was investigated by measurements in a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer and a torque magnetometer. Magnetic and magnetoelectric results can be understood taking into account the interplay between crystal symmetry and the local symmetry of the Holmium ions.