Dr Dharmalingam Prabhakaran

Abstract:

The deposited package contains experimental single crystal inelastic neutron scattering data probing the spin dynamics in the quantum Ising chain magnet CoNb2O6 in applied transverse magnetic field together with corresponding theoretical calculations of the spin dynamics. A matlab script to read and plot all data in ASCII files is also supplied.

Abstract:

The magnetic susceptibility χ of RMnO3 (R = La, Y) manganites was measured for paramagnetic phase as a function of the hydrostatic pressure P up to 2 kbar at some fixed temperature in the range from 78 to 300 K. A pronounced magnitude of the pressure effect dlnχ/dP was found to be positive in sign for LaMnO3 and negative for YMnO3, both being strongly temperature dependent. Analysis of the experimental data, based on the Curie-Weiss behavior of χ(T), allowed to estimate the pressure derivative of the paramagnetic Curie temperature to be dΘ/dP = (0.25 ± 0.03) and −(2.4 ± 0.4) K/kbar for LaMnO3 and YMnO3, respectively.

Abstract:

According to previous theoretical work, the binary oxide CuO can become a room temperature multiferroic via tuning of the superexchange interactions by application of pressure. Thus far, however, there has been no experimental evidence for the predicted room-temperature multiferroicity. Here, we show by neutron diffraction that the multiferroic phase in CuO reaches 295 K with the application of 18.5 GPa pressure. We also develop a spin Hamiltonian based on density functional theory and employing superexchange theory for the magnetic interactions, which can reproduce the experimental results. The present study provides a stimulus to develop room-temperature multiferroic materials by alternative methods based on existing low temperature compounds, such as epitaxial strain, for tunable multifunctional devices and memory applications.