https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2015150129
Magneto-electric effect for multiferroic thin film by Monte Carlo simulation*
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland
1010, New Zealand
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Received:
27
February
2015
Revised:
15
May
2015
Accepted:
20
May
2015
Published online:
24
June
2015
Abstract
Magneto-electric (ME) effect in a multiferroic heterostructure film, i.e., a coupled ferromagnetic-ferroelectric thin film, has been investigated through the use of the Metropolis algorithm in Monte Carlo simulations. A classical Heisenberg model describes the energy stored in the ferromagnetic (FM) film, and we use a pseudo-spin model with a transverse Ising Hamiltonian to characterise the energy of electric dipoles in the ferroelectric (FE) film. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the dynamic response of polarisation is driven by an external magnetic field, when there is a linear magneto-electric coupling at the interface between the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric components.
Contribution to the topical issue “Advanced Electromagnetics Symposium (AES 2014) – Elected submissions”, edited by Adel Razek
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