Magnetic octupole tensor decomposition and second-order magnetoelectric effect

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2022.168964zbMATH Open1504.78006arXiv2206.00522OpenAlexW4283276942WikidataQ114209496 ScholiaQ114209496MaRDI QIDQ2103189FDOQ2103189

Authors: Andrea Urru, Nicola A. Spaldin 

Publication date: 13 December 2022

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the second-order magnetoelectric effect, in which a quadratic or bilinear electric field induces a linear magnetization, in terms of the ferroic ordering of magnetic octupoles. We present the decomposition of a general rank-3 tensor into its irreducible spherical tensors, then reduce the decomposition to the specific case of the magnetic octupole tensor, $mathcal{M}_{ijk}=intm{u}_i(mathbfr)r_j{r}_k{d}^{3}mathbfr$. We use first-principles density functional theory to compute the size of the local magnetic multipoles on the chromium ions in the prototypical magnetoelectric Cr${}_2$O${}_3$, and show that, in addition to the well established local magnetic dipoles and magnetoelectric multipoles, the magnetic octupoles are non-zero. The magnetic octupoles in Cr${}_2$O${}_3$ have an anti-ferroic arrangement, so their net second-order magnetoelectric response is zero. Therefore they form a kind of hidden order, which could be revealed as a linear magnetic (antiferromagnetic) response to a non-zone-center (uniform) quadratic electric field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00522

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zbMATH Keywords

tensor decompositionmagnetoelectric effectmagnetic octupole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Multipole methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M16) Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics (82D45) Computational density functional analysis in statistical mechanics (82M36)

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