
arXiv: 1708.04925
Many years and great effort have been spent constructing the microscopic model for the room temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 However, earlier models implicitly assumed that the cycloidal wavevector q was confined to one of the three-fold symmetric axis in the hexagonal plane normal to the electric polarization. Because recent measurements indicate that q can be rotated by a magnetic field, it is essential to properly treat the anisotropy that confines q at low fields. We show that the anisotropy energy $-K_3 S^6 \sin^6 ��\cos 6 ��$ confines the wavevectors q to the three-fold axis $��=0$ and $+-2 ��/3$ within the hexagonal plane with $��= ��/2$.
Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci), FOS: Physical sciences
Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci), FOS: Physical sciences
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