Multiferroicity in rare-earth nickelates RNiO3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Giovannetti, Gianluca ^a,b,c   Kumar, Sanjeev ^a,b   Khomskii, Daniel ^d   Picozzi, Silvia ^c   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST PRINCIPLES ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GROUND-STATE SPINS; MAGNETIC ORDERING; MULTIFERROICS; NICKELATES; SMALL ENERGY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HOLMIUM;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 70349868443     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.156401     Document Type: Article

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