Spin cluster glass and magnetoelectricity in Mn-doped KTaO3.

abstract

In ceramics of KTaO3. doped with 3 at. % of Mn the dielectric response is dominated by the polydispersive behavior of Mn2+ centered polar regions, whereas the magnetic and magnetoelectric (ME) behaviors reflect an intimate coupling between A-site substituted Mn2+ ions and minute amounts of Mn3O4 precipitates mediated by the polar host material. This becomes apparent by the common onset at T-c approximate to 42 K of the ordering of ferrimagnetic Mn3O4 and of a spin cluster glass, which is characterized by memory and rejuvenation effects. The composite magnetic system exposed to external magnetic and electric dc fields shows large third order ME susceptibility with a sharp anomaly at T-c and 1/T-2 dependence as T -> 0. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3430990]

keywords

MN3O4

subject category

Physics

authors

Shvartsman, VV; Bedanta, S; Borisov, P; Kleemann, W; Tkach, A; Vilarinho, PM

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acknowledgements

We thank U. von Horsten for helping with the XRD data. Financial supports by DFG (Grant No. SFB 491), EU (STREP Grant No. NMP3-CT-2006-032616

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