Relativistic analysis of magnetoelectric crystals: extracting a new 4-dimensional P odd and T odd pseudoscalar from Cr₂O₃ data

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.08.069zbMATH Open1217.78009arXiv0708.2069OpenAlexW2076666448MaRDI QIDQ552797FDOQ552797

Authors: Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov, Jean-Pierre Rivera, Hans Albrecht Schmid 

Publication date: 26 July 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Earlier, the linear magnetoelectric effect of chromium sesquioxide Cr_2 O_3 has been determined experimentally as a function of temperature. One measures the electric field-induced magnetization on Cr_2 O_3 crystals or the magnetic field-induced polarization. From the magnetoelectric moduli of Cr_2 O_3 we extract a 4-dimensional relativistic invariant pseudoscalar ildealpha. It is temperature dependent and of the order of ~ 10^{-4} Y_0, with Y_0 as vacuum admittance. We show that the new pseudoscalar ildealpha is odd under parity transformation and odd under time inversion. Moreover, ildealpha is for Cr_2 O_3 what Tellegen's gyrator is for two port theory, the axion field for axion electrodynamics, and the PEMC (perfect electromagnetic conductor) for electrical engineering.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2069

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zbMATH Keywords

constitutive lawrelativityelectrodynamicsaxion electrodynamicsbroken \(P\) and \(T\) invariancechromium oxide \(Cr_{2}O_{3}\)gyratormagnetoelectric mediaPEMC

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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