Origin of giant ferroelectricity in perovskite-type Mn2O3

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Perovskite-type compounds can be both very simple and tremendously complex. Remarkably, even binary perovskite-type compounds may exhibit high level of complexity that leads to intriguing physical behavior. Recently, we discovered that Mn2O3 is non-perovskite at ambient pressure transforms into a perovskite-type structure around 20 GPa and 1200 K. This perovskite-type polymorph can be quenched to ambient conditions. It reveals several magnetic transitions and giant magnetically-driven ferroelectricity, with ferroelectric polarization ranging among the highest values observed in systems of this kind. We will use neutron diffraction on WISH to resolve magnetic structures as well as details of the crystal structure of perovskite-type Mn2O3. This experiment will help us to elucidate the origin of giant magnetically-driven ferroelectricity.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73942569
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73942569
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Creator Dr Sergey Ovsyannikov; Dr Alexander Tsirlin; Dr Artem Abakumov; Dr Dmitry Khalyavin
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-09T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-11T09:00:00Z