著者

有馬 孝尚

出版者

日本結晶学会

雑誌

日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, no.5, pp.317-325, 2011-10-31 (Released:2011-11-20)

参考文献数

34

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The interplay between magnetism and electricity in matter has become a central issue of condensed-matter physics. Here I focus on the ferroelectricity induced by magnetic order mostly in frustrated magnets, which is nowadays referred to as magneto-electric (ME) multiferroic. Some distinct types of microscopic origins relevant to the spin-driven ferroelectricity are discussed. It is also shown that the frustration based spin-driven ferroelectrics can exhibit nonlinear and giant ME responses of phase transition type.