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The Haldane spin-chain (S=1) insulating compound, Sm2BaNiO5, which has been proposed to order antiferromagnetically around (T_N=) 55 K, was investigated for its complex dielectric permittivity, magnetodielectric and pyrocurrent behavior as a function of temperature (T). In order to enable meaningful discussions, the results of ac and dc magnetizatioin and heat-capacity studies are also reported. We emphasize on the following findings: (i) There is a pyrocurrent peak near T_N, but it is shown not to arise from ferroelectricity, but possibly due to thermally stimulated depolarization current, unlike in many other members of this rare-earth series, in which case ferroelectric features were reported at or above T_N; (ii) however, the pyrocurrent measured in the presence of a bias electric field (after cooling in zero electric field) as well as dielectric constant reveal a weak peak with increasing T around 22 K - the temperature around which population of the exchange-split excited state of Kramers doublet has been known to occur. This finding suggests that this compound presents a novel situation in which multiferroicity is induced by an interplay between crystal-field effects and exchange interaction. No multiglass features could be observed down to 2 K unlike in many members of this family.
In the multiferroic hexagonal manganite HoMnO3, inelastic neutron scattering and synchrotron based THz spectroscopy have been used to investigate the spin waves associated to the Mn order together with Ho crystal field excitations. While the Mn order
We have recently reported that the Haldane spin-chain system, Er2BaNiO5, undergoing antiferromagnetic order below 32 K, is characterized by the onset of ferroelectricity near 60K due to magnetoelectric coupling induced by short-range magnetic-order w
The bulk single crystals of $S = 1$ chain compound Ni(C$_3$H$_{10}$N$_2$)$_2$NO$_2$ClO$_4$ are grown by using a slow evaporation method at a constant temperature and a slow cooling method. It is found that the optimum condition of growing large cryst
We present sharp magnetization jumps and field induced irreversibility in magnetization in multiferroic Y2CoMnO6. Appearance of magnetic relaxation and field sweep rate dependence of magnetization jumps resemble the martensite like scenario and sugge
SrTm$_2$O$_4$ has been investigated using heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization in pulsed fields, and inelastic neutron scattering measurements. These results show that the system is highly anisotropic, has gapped low-energy dispersin