Ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism in multiferroic materials explained by photonic tunneling model

ABSTRACT

Considering a photon field from its constituent electrons and ions, a photon correlation theory for ferroelectrics and antiferromagnetism is proposed. We calculate the spontaneous polarization which originates from a certain alignments of photon field in correlation with the specific phonon mode. Using the microscopic Hamiltonian we obtain the ferroelectric transition temperature, T_c and the antiferromagnetic transition temperature, T_N in multiferroic materials. T_c and T_N are given by same formula except different wavevector dependence originated from geometric difference between ferroelectrics and antiferromagnetism in multiferroics. The correlation between magnetic field and electric field on ferroelectrics and antiferromagnetism is considered to obtain the spontaneous polarization in good correspondence with experimental data.

KEYWORDS:

• Block spin
• photon tunneling
• multiferroics

Funding

This work was supported by the 2015 Inje University research grant.