MAGNETIC SYMMETRY OF DEFECT IN MULTIFERROIC

MATERIAL

B. M. Tanygin

Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, Radiophysics Faculty, Glushkov av.2, build.5, Kyiv,
Ukraine, MSP 01601; e-mail: b.m.tanygin@gmail.com

Crystal lattice defect in ferromagnetically ordered medium produces a localized

inhomogeneous magnetization M distribution [1]. The last is 0°- magnetic domain wall
(DW) [1]. If the medium is multiferroic, which exhibits coupled ferromagnetism and
ferroelectricity (i.e. it is ferromagnetoelectric), then inhomogeneous magnetoelectric
effect [2] produces electrical polarization P distributed in the DW volume. This
phenomenon is closely related to the magnetic symmetry of the system [2].

One-dimensional model of inhomogeneous region (in the same way as [1]) is

chosen for the investigation. Then, the symmetry of the magnetic 0°-DW is described
using the 42 magnetic symmetry classes (MSCs) [3]. The following conclusions were
obtained using the symmetry approach:

- arbitrary symmetry magnetic 0°-DW allows the spatial P distribution;

- there are no magnetic 0°-DWs with “pulsating” [3] spatial M distribution
(distribution that includes coordinate with |M|=0);
- there are magnetic 0°-DWs with pulsating spatial P distribution. They are DWs
with symmetry described by non-polar MSCs.

In particular case, pulsating P distribution appears in volume of the magnetic 0°-

DWs with triclinic-pinacoidal MSC 1 . The MSC of DW is subgroup of MSC of medium
in paramagnetic phase [3]. Thus, this 0°-DW with pulsating P distribution is possible
when MSC of the crystal with the defect is centrosymmetric.

References

[1] R. Vakhitov, A Yumaguzin, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 215-216, 52 (2000)

[2] A. M. Prokhorov, A. S. Prokhorov, Problems in solid-state physics, Chapter 2, 57-80, Mir
Publishers, Moscow, 1984.
[3] B. M. Tanygin, O. V. Tychko, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 404, 21, 4018-4022 (2009).

Please, cite original work as:

B.M. Tanygin,
Magnetic Symmetry of Defect in Multiferroic Material,
Abstracts of the 11th Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials -
EURODIM 2010, PECS, Hungary, 2010, B44.

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