Eur. Phys. J. B 71, 331-338 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00264-6

Microscopic mechanisms of spin-dependent electric polarization in 3d oxides

¹ Ural State University, 620083 Ekaterinburg, Russia
² Leibniz Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, 01171 Dresden, Germany

Corresponding author: ^a alexandr.moskvin@usu.ru

Received: 9 March 2009
Revised: 1 June 2009
Published online: 21 July 2009

Abstract

We present a short critical overview of different microscopic models for nonrelativistic and relativistic magnetoelectric coupling including the so-called “spin current scenario”, ab-initio calculations, and several recent microscopic approaches to a spin-dependent electric polarization in 3d oxides.