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Uniform and staggered electric axial moment in a zigzag chain

英語

2023

American Physical Society (APS)

Physical Review B

108(9)

094106

We theoretically investigate electronic orderings with the electric axial moment without breakings of both spatial inversion and time-reversal symmetries in the zigzag-chain system. Specifically, we elucidate the role of the local odd-parity hybridization arising from locally noncentrosymmetric lattice structures based on symmetry and microscopic model analyses. We show that the odd-parity crystalline electric field gives rise to an effective cross-product coupling between the electric dipole and electric toroidal dipole, the latter of which corresponds to the electric axial moment. As a result, the staggered component of the electric axial moment is induced by applying an external electric field, while its uniform component is induced via the appearance of staggered electric dipole ordering. We also show that uniform electric quadrupole ordering accompanies uniform electric axial moment. Furthermore, we discuss transverse magnetization as a consequence of the orderings with the uniform electric axial moment. Our results extend the scope of materials exhibiting electric axial ordering to those with locally noncentrosymmetric lattice structures.

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