报告题目：Unified model for spin order induced polarization in multiferroics

报 告 人：向红军，Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People’s Republic of China

报告时间：12月23日10：30

报告地点：物理系三楼报告厅

报告摘要：In recent years, we have theoretically studied the microscopic origin of ferroelectricity in different multiferroic systems. We proposed a unified model [1,2], which includes purely electronic and ion-displacement contribution simultaneously to describe spin-order induced ferroelectricity. An efficient method [3] was developed to compute the model parameters from first-principles. On the basis of the unified model and density functional calculations, we explained the ferroelectricity induced by the proper-screw spin spiral [2], discovered a novel magnetoelectric coupling mechanism in which the magnitude of the polarization is governed by the exchange striction with the direction by the spin chirality [4], proposed that the ferroelectricity in the chiral-lattice magnet Cu2OSeO3 is due to the unusual single-spin site term [5], unraveled that the magnetoelectric effect observed in BiFeO3 originates from the exchange striction [2].

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