1. Electronic ground-state hysteresis under magnetic field in GdMn$_2$O$_5$
- Author
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V, Balédent, A., Vaunat, S., Petit, Nataf, L., S., Chattopadhyay, S., Raymond, and P, Foury-Leylekian
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Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons ,Condensed Matter - Materials Science - Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the physical properties of the type II multiferroic GdMn$_2$O$_5$ material by means of neutrons scattering, electric polarization and magnetization measurements. A complex $(T,H)$ phase diagram shows up, with especially a field induced magnetic transition around 12 T at low temperature. The high field phase is accompanied by an additional electric polarization along both the $a$ and $$b directions, as authorized by symmetry, but never observed experimentally up to now. While the magnetic properties recover their initial states after driving the field back to zero, the polarization along $a$ shows a significant increase. This behavior is observed for all directions of the magnetic field. It constitutes a novel and striking manifestation of the magneto-electric coupling, resulting in the establishment of a new ground state at zero magnetic field.
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- 2023