Magnetoelectric coupling and magnetoelectric properties of single-phase ABO3 type multiferroic materials

Abstract

The anomalies in both the dielectric constant and loss tangent occur at fixed temperature close to the magnetic ordering transition, which have been observed experimentally in multiferroic pervoskite YMnO3 and BiMnO3, indicating coupling between the magnetism and dielectric properties. In this paper, by analyzing the magnetoelectric coupling between magnetic and ferroelectric subsystems, an appropriate coupling term related to a combination of electric polarization and spin correlation is added to system Hamilton expression, Then apply the soft-mode theory for electric subsystem and mean-field approximation under Heisenberg model for magnetic subsystem,magnetoelectric properties have been investigated, including the change of polarization, dielectric constant induced by external magnetic field, and the change of magnetization induced by external electric field. We also make some qualitative comparison and analysis between our results and the experimented ones and give a reasonable interpretation of magnetoelectricity phenomenon in some multiferroic pervoskite materials.