Enhancement of Anisotropy due to Fluctuations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

It is shown that the observed anisotropy of magnetization at high magnetic fields in RbMnBr3 , a quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet on a distorted stacked triangular lattice, is due to quantum and thermal fluctuations. These fluctuations are taken into account in the framework of linear spin-wave theory in the region of strong magnetic fields. In this region the divergent one-dimensional integrals are cut off by magnetic field and the bare easy-plane anisotropy. Logarithmical dependence on the cutoff leads to the "enhancement" of the anisotropy in magnetization. Comparison between magnetization data and our theory with parameters obtained from neutron scattering experiments has been done.Comment: 15 pages + 5 postscript figures available upon request, RevTex

The magnetoelectric effects in weak ferromagnetic YMn 2O 5 modulated structure: a Landau theory approach

According to the group theory approach, linear magnetoelectric effect (ME) can not be obtained for the spatial group of YMn2O5, which was known to be mmm. Regard to the magnetic structure of these type of materials, we propose a magnetic group structure for the YMn2O5 by considering spin orientation of the Mn3+ and Mn4+ ions. According to the landau theory of phase transition it can be shown, how symmetrical rules result in relationship between quantities such as magnetic order, polarization, and etc. This relation shows a weak ferromagnetic state, associated with spontaneous polarization, arisen by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya type interaction and a field induced change in magnetoelectrical susceptibility

Flexomagnetoelectric interaction in multiferroics

75.80.+q Magnetomechanical and magnetoelectric effects, magnetostriction, 75.50.Ee Antiferromagnetics,