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Magnetoelastic relaxations in EuTiO3


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Schiemer, J 
Spalek, LJ 
Saxena, SS 
Panagopoulos, C 
Katsufuji, T 

Abstract

The multiferroic properties of EuTiO3 are greatly enhanced when a sample is strained, signifying that coupling between strain and structural, magnetic or ferroelectric order parameters is extremely important. Here resonant ultrasound spectroscopy has been used to investigate strain coupling effects, as well as possible additional phase transitions, through their influence on elastic and anelastic relaxations that occur as a function of temperature between 2 and 300 K and with applied magnetic field up to 14 T. Antiferromagnetic ordering is accompanied by acoustic loss and softening, and a weak magnetoelastic effect is also associated with the change in magnetization direction below ~2.8 K. Changes in loss due to the influence of magnetic field suggest the existence of magnetic defects which couple with strain and may play a role in pinning of ferroelastic twin walls.

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci, cond-mat.mtrl-sci

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EPL

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Journal ISSN

0295-5075
1286-4854

Volume Title

109

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I036079/1)
MAC acknowledges support from NERC and EPSRC (grants NE/B505738/1 and EP/I036079/1, respectively). CP acknowledges financial support in Greece through FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, and in Singapore through Award No. NRF-CRP-4-2008-04 of the Competitive Research Programme. LJS acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre (NCN) through grant MAESTRO No. DEC-2012/04/A/ST3/00342. Dr Albert Migliori (Los Alamos National Laboratory) is thanked for invaluable assistance in creating the RUS system with in-situ magnetic field. Tony Dennis (University of Cambridge) collected the SQUID data.