Antiferroelectric lattice distortion induced by ferroquadrupolar order in DyVO4

The effects of quadrupolar order on structural, magnetic, and dielectric properties have been investigated for DyVO4. Our detailed structure analysis demonstrated that the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect associated with 4f ferroquadrupolar order causes the displacement of oxygen ions surrounding a Dy ion, which makes the relative position of a V ion off-center in a VO4 tetrahedron. The lattice distortion well explains antiferroelectriclike anomalies at around the quadrupolar ordering temperature. We also report the Jahn-Teller domain control giving rise to a remarkable magnetocapacitance effect by applying a small magnetic field (similar to 0.1 T).