PHYSICAL REVIEW B 89, 064406 (2014)
Exploration of the helimagnetic and skyrmion lattice phase diagram in Cu2 OSeO3 using
magnetoelectric susceptibility
A. A. Omrani,1 J. S. White,1,2 K. Prša,1 I. Živković,3 H. Berger,4 A. Magrez,4 Ye-Hua Liu,5 J. H. Han,6,7 and H. M. Rønnow1,*
1
Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2
Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
3
Institute of Physics, Bijenička 46, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
4
Crystal Growth Facility, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
5
Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
6
Department of Physics and BK21 Physics Research Division, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
7
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, Korea
(Received 12 September 2013; revised manuscript received 17 January 2014; published 10 February 2014)
Using superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry techniques, we have studied the change
in magnetization versus applied ac electric field, i.e. the magnetoelectric (ME) susceptibility dM/dE, in the
chiral-lattice ME insulator Cu2 OSeO3 . Measurements of the dM/dE response provide a sensitive and efficient
probe of the magnetic phase diagram, and we observe clearly distinct responses for the different magnetic
phases, including the skyrmion lattice phase. By combining our results with theoretical calculation, we estimate
quantitatively the ME coupling strength as λ = 0.0146 meV/(V/nm) in the conical phase. Our study demonstrates
the ME susceptibility to be a powerful, sensitive, and efficient technique for both characterizing and discovering
new multiferroic materials and phases.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.064406
PACS number(s): 75.25.−j, 75.50.Gg, 75.85.+t, 77.80.−e
Multiferroic and magnetoelectric (ME) materials that display directly coupled magnetic and electric properties may lie
at the heart of new and efficient applications. Two intensely
studied prototypical ME compounds with spiral order are
TbMnO3 [1,2] and Ni3 V2 O8 [3], for which the microscopic
mechanisms proposed to explain the generation of the electric polarization include the inverse Dzyaloshinksii-Moriya
(DM) [4] and spin current [5] models, respectively.
Another exciting group of ME materials are chiral-lattice
systems, since interactions that may promote symmetrybreaking magnetic order do not cancel when evaluated over
the unit cell. The decisive role of noncentrosymmetry has been
most clearly exemplified in itinerant MnSi [6,7], FeGe [8]
and semiconducting Fe1−x Cox Si [9]. In these compounds the
principal phases are; (i) multiple q-domain helimagnetic order
(helical phase) for 0 < B < Bc1 (T ), (ii) single-q helimagnetic
order modulated along the field (conical phase) for Bc1 (T ) <
B < Bc2 (T ), and (iii) a small phase pocket close to TN where
anovel triple-q state described by three coupled helices
( i qi = 0) is stabilized, and which corresponds to a lattice of
skyrmions. This latter phase is particularly interesting, since
in MnSi the nanosized (15 nm [10]) skyrmions can be coherently manipulated by the conduction electrons of an applied
current [7], leading to both emergent electrodynamics, [11]
and promise for applications.
Most recently, the first skyrmion lattice (SkL) phase in
an insulating material was discovered in the chiral-lattice
material Cu2 OSeO3 [12–14]. In direct analogy with
the metallike SkL compounds, Cu2 OSeO3 also has the
chiral-cubic P 21 3 space group, and the magnetic phase
diagram is similarly composed of helical, conical, and SkL
phases [12,13]. The earlier proposed ferrimagnetic state
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in this compound exists for fields B > Bc2 (T ) [15–17].
The discovery at lower fields that Cu2 OSeO3 displays
the seemingly generic magnetic phase diagram of a SkL
compound is enthralling since a variety of studies show
Cu2 OSeO3 to display a ME coupling [12,15,18–21].
Indeed, the microscopic origin for the ME coupling is
identified as caused by the d-p hybridization mechanism
[21–24]. Most recently, emergent ME properties of the
individual skyrmion particles were proposed [21,25], and
demonstrated to exist experimentally [26]. Cu2 OSeO3 represents a thus far unique opportunity for studying the electric
field control of the magnetic properties of a ME SkL system.
The majority of the reported ME effects in materials
are obtained from standard measurements of the electric
polarization performed as a function of the applied magnetic field and temperature [12,15,19,21]. Here we report
measurements of the ME susceptibility, which is the change
in sample magnetization with ac electric field, to conduct
a highly sensitive exploration of the ME effect across the
entire magnetic phase diagram of Cu2 OSeO3 . While a similar
approach has been applied previously for exploring the ME
effect in Cr2 O3 [27], our study demonstrates the capability
of the technique for revealing the detailed structure of the
rich helimagnetic and skyrmion lattice phase diagram of
Cu2 OSeO3 . Furthermore, we obtain a quantitative estimate
of the ME coupling strength by comparing our data with
theoretical calculations, thus showing the potential of this
technique for the efficient discovery and parametrization of
new ME phases.
Single crystals of Cu2 OSeO3 were grown by a standard
chemical vapor transport method [16,20]. Our sample had
a mass of 11.7 mg, a volume of 2 × 2 × 0.39 mm3 , and
was cut with the thinnest dimension along the [111] direction. Electrodes were created directly on the (111) crystal
faces using silver paint. The sample was then mounted
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57K, E||H||[111]
(a)
57K, E||[111], H||[1-10]
(a)
(d)
(b)
(e)
(c)
(f)
(b)
FIG. 1. (Color online) (a) ME signal as function of constant
electric field applied along [111] for various magnetic field and
temperature conditions, (b) magnetic field scans of the ac ME
susceptibility measured at different temperatures (no demagnetization
correction is applied here).
inside a vertical-field superconducting quantum interference
device (SQUID) magnetometer, in which two different experimental geometries were studied: (i) E μ0 H [111] and
(ii) E [111] with μ0 H [1–10].
To measure the ME susceptibility, an ac electric field was
applied to a single crystal sample and, in the presence of
a simultaneous dc magnetic field, a SQUID magnetometer
was used to monitor directly the associated change in sample
magnetization. The change in the SQUID signal resulting
from the applied ac electric field was recorded using a
lock-in amplifier synchronized with the ac voltage generator.
Any current-induced effects are readily ruled out due to
the negligible (∼1 nA) leakage current across the insulating
sample.
The change in magnetization of the Cu2 OSeO3 sample in
the configuration of E μ0 H [111] is shown in Fig. 1(a).
We observe that the response is linear in the electric field
up to 7.7 × 10−4 V/nm. Therefore, the gradient of the curve
provides the change in magnetization as a function of the
electric field, or the ME susceptibility, χME , dM/dE for each
magnetic field and temperature, and we can expect to model
the phenomena with linear response theories and, for example
a Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology [28]. For the example of
the (field-cooled) data at μ0 H = 0.1 T and T = 40 K, this
variation is 6.6 × 10−8 μB /Cu per 1 V/m. In Fig. 1(b), the
magnetic field dependence of dM/dE is presented at various
FIG. 2. (Color online) The magnetic field dependence of: (a), (d)
the ac ME susceptibility; (b), (e) ac magnetic susceptibility; and (c),
(f) dc magnetization for E μ0 H [111] (a)–(c), and E [111] with
μ0 H [1–10] (d)–(f). In the latter crystal orientation, due to the small
area exposed to magnetic field, no demagnetization correction has
been made. All measurements of dM/dE were done using a 10 Hz,
5 V ac voltage. The letters F, C, S, and H denote the ferrimagnetic,
conical, skyrmion, and helical phases, respectively.
temperatures, covering the helical, conical and ferrimagnetic
phases. Salient features include the linear tendency of dM/dE
of different slopes within the conical phase, and the drop of
the signal for fields B > Bc2 (T ) in the ferrimagnetic phase.
Since the SkL phase is reported to exist in the approximate
temperature range of 56–58 K, in Fig. 2 we show highprecision magnetic-field-dependent measurements of the ac
ME and magnetic susceptibilities, and the dc magnetization
at T = 57 K for the two different experimental configurations E μ0 H [111] [Figs. 2(a)–2(c)] and E [111] with
μ0 H [1–10] [Figs. 2(d)–2(f)]. The ME susceptibility is seen
to be a particularly revealing probe of the magnetic phase
diagram; a series of sharp peaks and dips are observed in
both the real and imaginary parts that give clear evidence
for magnetic transitions. A remarkable feature of these data
is the high precision at which these transitions may be
determined, compared to the corresponding kinklike features
in the ac magnetic susceptibility [Figs. 2(b) and 2(e)], and
only small wiggles seen in the dc magnetization [Figs. 2(c)
and 2(f)].
For both magnetic field geometries, the magnetic field
dependence of the ME susceptibility can be divided into three
main parts. First, the value of dM/dE remains very small
in the helical phase and seemingly constant in SkL phases.
Second, dM/dE depends linearly on the applied magnetic
field within the conical phase on both sides of the skyrmion
phase. This is most easily seen in the high field regime,
where also the maximum signal in dM/dE is observed.
Third, both the lower and upper field borders between the
SkL and conical phases are characterized by strong peaks and
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5 ×10
(a)
(c)
(b)
(d)
400
300
200
100
400
Conical
300
Skyrmion
200
100
Helical
55
56
57
T(K)
58
59
55
56
57
T(K)
58
59
FIG. 3. (Color online) For the E μ0 H [111] geometry, magnetic phase diagrams constructed using (a) the real, and (b) imaginary
parts of the ME susceptibility (dM/dE)/H, and (c) the dc magnetization (M/H). These diagrams were constructed using temperature
scans (warming) after the sample was field cooled from 70 K. In
(d) we show the portion of the magnetic phase diagram near the
ordering temperature extracted from the real part of the temperature
scans signals.
dips in both the real and imaginary parts of dM/dE. The
observed peaks and dips for the transition into and out of the
SkL phase reflect nonlinear responses occurring at the phase
boundaries. This observation contrasts the behavior seen for
the transitions at both Bc1 (helical-conical transition), and Bc2
(conical-ferrimagnetic transition), where only the real part of
the ME susceptibility shows steps. Extra measurements were
carried out at T < 56 K where no SkL phase is expected,
and only the transitions at Bc1 (T ) and Bc2 (T ) are observed.
This confirms that the extra peaks and dips observed at T =
57 K may be assigned to transitions on the borders of the SkL
phase.
The magnetic field and temperature dependence of the real
and imaginary parts of dM/dE, and the dc magnetization
are shown for the E μ0 H [111] geometry in Figs. 3(a)–
3(c). By tracking the peak and dip features observed in
temperature scans of dM/dE, the main magnetic phases are
easily identified (particularly in the real part of dM/dE), and
agree well with the phase diagram determined with alternative
methods [12,13]. The data shown in Fig. 3(b) also indicate
that the large peaks and dips in the imaginary part of dM/dE
occur at the SkL phase boundary. In Fig. 3(d) the first magnetic
phase diagram constructed by using the ac ME susceptibility
technique is presented. Only weak traces of these transitions
are seen in the phase diagram produced by dc magnetization
[Fig. 3(c)]. Above 58 K the continuous decay of the signal
with increasing temperature indicates a regime of short-range
order. The field dependence in this regime is linear with slope
of similar magnitude as in the conical phase and there are no
signs of crossovers. We therefore conclude that the critical
fluctuations are short-range correlations of the conical order
type.
Next we develop a theoretical framework for calculating
χ ME (for details, see Liu et al. [29]). We consider the effective Hamiltonian H = HHDM + HME which approximates the
microscopic Hamiltonian of the system with a simplified one
where one effective magnetic moment Si represents the total
unit-cell
moment in Cu2 OSeO3 [30].
The first term HHDM =
i,j (−J Si · Sj − D · Si × Sj ) −
i B · Si , respectively includes Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) spin-spin
interactions,
and the Zeeman term. [25] The second term
HME = − i Pi · Ei includes the ME coupling where the local
electric dipole moment per unit cell is coupled to the spin
configuration according to Refs. [21,25]
y
y
Pi = λ Si Siz ,Siz Six ,Six Si .
(1)
The coupling constant λ here represents the strength of the
ME coupling between the effective unit cell moments and the
electric field. If the direction of the applied electric field is ê
and we are interested in the magnetization along m̂, the ME
susceptibility is obtained from
∂(M.m̂)
gμB
χME =
Si · m̂
Pi · ê
=
∂E
NT
i
i
−
Si · m̂
Pi · ê ,
(2)
i
i
where λ has been absorbed into E so that this term has
dimensions of energy, the magnetization is M = gμB i Si /N,
and N is the number of unit cells (in our simulation N = 123 )
and T is the temperature. The averages . . . are performed
by means of Monte Carlo simulation. For
√ the case of B
E [111], we can choose ê = m̂ = (111)/ 3. The results of
these calculations are shown in Fig. 4(b).
(a)
Real
Imaginary
0.06
(b)
54 K
Conical
0.4
0.3
FM
0.04
0.2
0.02
0.1
T/J=0.49
T/J=0.97
T/J=1.49
0
0.02
(c)
57 K
H
C
SKL
0
FM
Conical
(d)
0.01
0
−0.01
0
200
400
600 0
200
dM[111]/dE [111]
(µ /Cu)/Oe
3
4
400
dM/dE (arb. units)
2
Helical
1
dM/dE (µB/Cu)/(V/nm)
-4
×10
dM/dE (µB/Cu)/(V/nm)
(µB/Cu)/(V.Oe/nm)
0
0.5
-0.5
600
FIG. 4. (Color online) Real and imaginary part of the ME response for the E [111] with μ0 H [1–10] geometry at 54 K (a) and
57 K (c), respectively. Part (b) represents the simulation results of a
3D lattice hosting helical, conical, and ferrimagnetic phases in the
E μ0 H [111] geometry. In (d) a schematic of the piecewise linear
behavior of dM/dE in the conical phase, and also including peaks
and dips on each side of the SkL phase.
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Additionally, a separate Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approach
is developed to derive the linear ME response in the conical
phase. In the same geometry as introduced above, the full GL
free energy density has the form:
F=
J
D
(∇µ)2 + 2 μ · (∇ × µ)
2a
a
√
B
− n|S| 3 (μx + μy + μz )/ 3
a
√
E
− λ 3 (μy μz + μz μx + μx μy )/ 3,
a
(3)
where µ is the sample magnetization, J , D, n, and a are
the Heisenberg, DM coupling energies, number of Cu sites
in the unit cell, and lattice constants, respectively. After a
rotation of both real and spin coordinates [25], the [111]
direction lies along the z axis in the rotated frame and Eq. (3)
becomes
F
1
= (∇µ)2 + µ · (∇ × µ) − βμz − ǫμ2z , (4)
8J K 2
2
√
where β = n|S|B/(8J K 2 a 3 ) and ǫ = 3λE/(8J K 2 a 3 ), and
the space coordinates are re-scaled as r → r/(4κ) with κ =
D/(2J ). The dimensionless free energy in Eq. (4) facilitates
the following discussion. The right-handed conical unit-length
spin configuration in a three-dimensional (3D) material, which
is compatible with D > 0, is described by
µ(x,y,z) = [sin(θ )cos(qz),sin(θ )sin(qz),cos(θ )],
(5)
where |µ| =1,θ is the conical angle, and (0,0,q) is the conical
modulation vector. By inserting (5) into the energy functional
of Eq. (4), and minimizing with respect to both q and θ , we
get q0 = 1/2 and cos(θ0 ) = 2β/(1 − 2ǫ). The derivative with
respect to ǫ becomes 4β/[(1 − 2ǫ)2 ], and hence by considering
the average unit cell magnetization as |M| = gnμB |S| with the
same spin configuration as μ the derivative with respect to ǫ
forms as:
∂(Mz )
4β
= (gnμB |S|)
,
∂ǫ
(1 − 2ǫ)2
(6)
which depends linearly on the magnetic field. The final expression for the low electric-field limit of the ME susceptibility
containing material parameters in the conical phase can be
written as:
∂(Mz ) ∂ǫ
∂(Mz )
=
∂E
∂ǫ ∂E
√
λ
B.
= 4 3(gnμB |S|)2
(8J K 2 )2
χME =
(7)
We now discuss how our experimental results compare to
the expectations of the two theoretical approaches developed.
Figure 4(a) shows a magnetic field scan of dM/dE done at
54 K, which, as seen from Fig. 3, is a temperature where no
SkL phase exists. At low fields, only a very small signal is
observed in the helical phase. Upon increasing the field, a
jump is observed in dM/dE at the transition into the conical
phase, where afterward we observe a linearly increasing signal
until the sharp fall upon entering the ferrimagnetic phase.
This behavior is in good qualitative agreement with the results
of Monte Carlo simulations [Eq. (2)] presented in Fig. 4(b).
Next we use Eq. (7) derived in the GL approach to estimate
quantitatively the size of the effective ME coupling parameter
λ. The slope of dM/dE extracted in the conical phase at
54 K [Fig. 4(a)] is 1.58 × 10−4 (μB /Cu)(V/nm)−1 (Oe)−1 . For
Cu2 OSeO3 the effective Heisenberg coupling between unit cell
moments is chosen to be J = 3.4 meV, which reproduces the
correct ordering temperature. The ratio κ = D/2J a = π/ l
is determined from the wavelength l = 630Å[13,26] of the
magnetic helix relative to the lattice constant a = 8.9 Å [31].
With |s| = Sz in the ferrimagnetic phase determined to be
3.52μB /unit cell at 54 K, we find λ = 0.0146 meV/(V/nm) =
2.34 × 10−33 J/(V/m). This value of the ME coupling leads
to a local electric dipole moment per unit cell P = 7.216 ×
10−27 μC m according to Eq. (1), or a macroscopic polarization
p = 10.2μC/m2 , which is of the same order of magnitude as
reported by Seki et al. [12]
The observed behavior in dM/dE when passing through
the SkL phase at 57 K is more complicated [Fig. 4(c)]. We
interpret the signal as a contribution of a piecewise linear
response and sharp nonlinear peaks at the transitions, as
sketched in Fig. 4(d). Due to the strong nonlinear peaks, the
exact field dependence of the response in the SkL phase cannot
be determined precisely and is thus presented as a shaded green
area in Fig. 4(d). The sharp peaks are ascribed to the nonlinear
response related to the first-order transitions separating the
conical and SkL phases. The imaginary components of
the peaks have opposite sign to the real part. A possible
explanation is that varying the magnetic field places the system
in a higher energy out-of-equilibrium state, whereby each
electric-field ac cycle releases, rather than absorbs, energy. The
observation that this nonlinear effect occurs exclusively around
the SkL phase borders could indicate near degeneracy of many
quasiprotected nonperfect SkL configurations that couple
strongly to the electric field. In turn, this provides exciting
prospects for the future electric-field control of individual
skyrmions.
In conclusion, we have presented a ME susceptibility study
of the phase diagram and ME coupling in Cu2 OSeO3 . By
exploiting the superior sensitivity of a SQUID magnetometer,
magnetization changes as small as 10−3 emu nm/V are
detected for a 10 Hz and 5 V driving ac electric field, and
allow the efficient exploration and characterization of the
ME coupling across the helimagnetic phase diagram of the
chiral-lattice ME Cu2 OSeO3 . Furthermore, both Monte Carlo
and Ginzburg-Landau calculations of the ME susceptibility
provide a quantitative analysis of the data, as exemplified by the extraction of the ME coupling parameter λ =
0.0146 meV/(V/nm). This work demonstrates ME susceptibility measurements to be an effective technique for studying
the general properties of ME compounds with rich magnetic
phase diagrams, and furthermore invites new investigations
of ME skyrmions, in particular their manipulation by electric
field.
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the
Swiss National Science Foundation, MaNEP, and the
European Research Council through the CONQUEST
grant.
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