Eur. Phys. J. B 71, 419-427 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00281-5

Flexomagnetoelectric interaction in multiferroics

¹ A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, 38, Vavilova st., 119991 Moscow, Russia
² Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov MSU, Leninskie gori, 119992 Moscow, Russia

Corresponding author: ^a Zvezdin@gmail.com

Received: 7 March 2009
Published online: 13 August 2009

Abstract

Various phenomena related to inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction are considered. The interrelation between spatial modulation of order parameter and electric polarization, known as flexoelectric effect in liquid crystals, in the case of magnetic media appears in a form of electric polarization induced by spin modulation and vice versa. This flexomagnetoelectric interaction is also related to the effect of ferroelectric domain structure on antiferromagnetic structure, and to the magnetoelectric properties of micromagnetic structures. The influence of inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction on dynamic properties of multiferroics, particularly magnon spectra is also considered.