Magnetic field-temperature phase diagrams of multiferroic (Ni0.9Co0.1)(3)V2O8

Navid Qureshi; Eric Ressouche; A. A. Mukhin; V. Yu Ivanov; S. N. Barilo; S. V. Shiryaev; V. Skumryev

Magnetic field-temperature phase diagrams of multiferroic (Ni0.9Co0.1)(3)V2O8

Navid Qureshi ¹ Eric Ressouche ² A. A. Mukhin ³ V. Yu Ivanov ³ S. N. Barilo ⁴ S. V. Shiryaev ⁴ V. Skumryev ^{5, 6}

1 ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin

2 MDN - Magnétisme et Diffusion Neutronique

MEM - Modélisation et Exploration des Matériaux : DRF/INAC/MEM

3 RAS - Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow]

4 NASB - National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

5 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

6 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Barcelona]

Abstract : We present macroscopic and neutron diffraction data on multiferroic lightly Co doped Ni3V2O8. The magnetic H-T phase diagrams have been derived from magnetization and electric polarization measurements with field directions parallel to the principal crystallographic axes. While the phase diagram for H parallel to b is very similar to that of the parent compound Ni3V2O8 for the commonly involved phases, the zero-field phases in (Ni0.9Co0.1)(3)V2O8 show a stronger instability for applied magnetic fields along the a or c axis. Neutron single-crystal diffraction revealed the magnetic structure of the field-induced phase for H parallel to c with a collinear spin alignment along the a and b axes for the two magnetically inequivalent sites. A pronounced irreversibility has been observed for the transition between the zero-field spin cycloid and the field-induced phase, which is manifested in a propagation vector change from q = (0.322 0 0) to q = (0.306 0 0), with slight modifications of the magnetic structure after reentering the zero-field phase. The reentrant phase is characterized by a significantly larger b component of the cross-tie site spin, therefore showing remanent features of the high-field phase. For H parallel to a the magnetization data reveal anomalies, one of which was proved to reflect a field-induced transition from the cycloidally to the sinusoidally modulated magnetic structure.

Keywords : Ni3V2O8 ferroelectricity Co3V2O8

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Journal articles

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Physics [physics]

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