Strong Correlation Quantum Structure Research Team

Principal Investigator

PI Name Takahisa Arima
Degree Ph.D.
Title Team Leader
Brief Resume
1988 TORAY Co. Ltd.
1991 Research Associate, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1994 Ph.D. (Science), University of Tokyo
1995 Research Associate, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
1995 Associate Professor, Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
2001 Group Leader, ERATO Tokura Spin Super Structure Project (-2006)
2004 Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
2011 Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo (-present)
2007 Team Leader, Spin Order Research Team, RIKEN SPring-8 Center (-2014)
2013 Team Leader, Strong Correlation Quantum Structure Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (-present)

Outline

Strongly correlated electron systems may exhibit various interesting emergent phenomena such as superconductivity, colossal magneto-resistance, and giant magneto-electric effects. These emergent phenomena are directly associated with the spatial distributions as well as the spatial and temporal fluctuations of atoms, electron density, and spin density. To reveal these phenomena, we perform crystallographic and magnetic structure analyses, spectroscopies, and microscopies by using synchrotron x-rays, neutrons, and high-energy electron beams.

Research Fields

Materials Science, Physics

Keywords

X-ray scattering
Neutron scattering
Electron diffraction
Structure science
Imaging

Results

Spin-driven Ferroelectricity and Electromagnon in Multiferroic Y-type Hexaferrite Compounds

Y-type hexaferrite compounds are composed of an alternate stacking of spinel block layers and hexagonal perovskite block layers.  The magnetic anisotropy of each layer and effective exchange interaction are dependent on the composition.  As a consequence, various magnetic orders appears in the temperature-magnetic field plane.  It is predicted that two kinds of magnetic orders, transverse cone and double fan, can host electric polarization via the inverse Dzyalloshinsky-Moriya interaction.  We performed measurements of magnetization, electric polarization, and spin-polarized neutron scattering in BaSrCo2Fe11AlO22.  It has been found that the alternate longitudinal cone first appears by cooling from a high temperature at zero magnetic field.  If a magnetic field is once applied perpendicular to the c-axis at low temperatures, the double fan replaces and survives even after the magnetic field is turned off.  The electric polarization is also induced along the axis perpendicular both to the c-axis and to the magnetic field.  The electric polarization is reversed by switching the magnetic field direction.  Inelastic spin-polarized neutron scattering has predicted that both the double fan and alternative longitudinal cone may host an electromagnon (magnon excited by THz electric field).

Figure

Magnetic-field induced reversal of electric polarization and possible change in magnetic structure in a Y-type hexaferrite BaSrCo2Fe11AlO22.

Members

Takahisa Arima

 Team Leader takahisa.arima[at]riken.jp

Shunsuke Kito

 Special Postdoctoral Researcher

Masaki Gen

 Special Postdoctoral Researcher

Kamini Gautam

 Postdoctoral Researcher

Takashi Kurumaji

 Visiting Scientist takashi.kurumaji[at]riken.jp

Daigorou Hirai

 Visiting Scientist

Publications

  1. V. Ukleev, O. Utesov, L. Yu, C. Luo, K. Chen, F. Radu, Y. Yamasaki, N. Kanazawa, Y. Tokura, T. Arima, J. S. White

    Signature of anisotropic exchange interaction revealed by vector-field control of the helical order in a FeGe thin plate

    Phys. Rev. Research 3, 013094 (2021)
  2. Y. Ishii, K. Yamamoto, Y. Yokoyama, M. Mizumaki, H. Nakao, T. Arima, Y. Yamasaki

    Soft-X-ray Vortex Beam Detected by Inline Holography

    Phys. Rev. Appl. 14, 064069 (2020)
  3. T. Nakajima, T. Oda, M. Hino, H. Endo, K. Ohishi, K. Kakurai, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, T. Arima

    Crystallization of magnetic skyrmions in MnSi investigated by neutron spin echo spectroscopy

    Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043393 (2020)
  4. V. Ukleev, Y. Yamasaki, O. Utesov, K. Shibata, N. Kanazawa, N. Jaouen, H. Nakao, Y. Tokura, and T.-h. Arima

    Metastable solitonic states in the strained itinerant helimagnet FeGe

    Phys. Rev. B 102, 014416 (2020)
  5. S. Gao, M. Hirschberger, O. Zaharko, T. Nakajima, T. Kurumaji, A. Kikkawa, J. Shiogai, A. Tsukazaki, S. Kimura, S. Awaji, Y. Taguchi, T.-h. Arima, and Y. Tokura

    Ordering phenomena of spin trimers accompanied by a large geometrical Hall effect

    Phys. Rev. B 100, 241115 (2019)

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E-mail：
takahisa.arima[at]riken.jp

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