Order parameters and phase diagram of multiferroic RMn2O5

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Harris, A B ^a   Aharony, Amnon ^b,c   Entin Wohlman, Ora ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MAGNETIC PHASE DIAGRAM; MAGNETIC PHASES; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING;

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

EID: 44649141521     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.217202     Document Type: Article

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