Recent Progress of Multiferroic Perovskite Manganites

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in multiferroic perovskite manganites, highlighting their prominent multiferroic properties and diverse physical mechanisms.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress in understanding the properties and mechanisms of multiferroic manganites.

Findings

Identification of key physical mechanisms

Advances in experimental characterization

Theoretical models explaining multiferroicity

Abstract

Many multiferroic materials, with various chemical compositions and crystal structures, have been discovered in the past years. Among these multiferroics, some perovskite manganites with ferroelectricity driven by magnetic orders are of particular interest. In these multiferroic perovskite manganites, not only their multiferroic properties are quite prominent, but also the involved physical mechanisms are very plenty and representative. In this Brief Review, we will introduce some recent theoretical and experimental progress on multiferroic manganites.