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
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.
PACS: 77.80.-e – Ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity / 75.80.+q – Magnetomechanical and magnetoelectric effects, magnetostriction / 71.70.Gm – Exchange interactions
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2009
