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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 81, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.024110
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- European Research Council [FP7/2007-2013, 203523]
- Caspur Supercomputing Center (Rome)
- Cineca Supercomputing Center (Bologna)
Li-based phosphates are paradigmatic materials for magnetoelectricity. By means of first-principles calculations, we elucidate the microscopic origin of spin anisotropy and of magnetoelectric effects in LiNiPO4. The comparison with LiCoPO4 reveals that Co d(7) and Ni d(8) electronic clouds show distinct orbital shapes, which in turn result in an opposite trend of the local spin anisotropy with respect to the surrounding O-6 cages. Due to magnetic anisotropy, the Ni-based phosphate shows a peculiar angled-cross spin ground state, which is responsible for magnetoelectricity. In this respect, we show that, under a magnetic field H-x, an electronic polarization P-z arises, with an estimated linear magnetoelectric coefficient in good agreement with experiments.
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