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Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan.
Lattice modulation and magnetic structures in magnetoelectric compounds Tb1-xDyxMnO3 have been studied around the ferroelectric (FE) Curie temperature TC by x-ray and neutron diffraction. Temperature-independent modulation vectors through TC are observed for the compounds with 0.50 <or=x<or=0.68. This indicates that ferroelectricity with a polarization (P) along the c axis in the RMnO3 series cannot be ascribed to such an incommensurate-commensurate transition of an antiferromagnetic order as was previously anticipated. A neutron diffraction study with x=0.59 shows that the FE transition is accompanied by the transformation of the Mn-spin alignment from sinusoidal (collinear) antiferromagnetism into a transverse-spiral structure. The observed spiral structure below TC is expected to produce P along the c axis with the "inverse" Dzialoshinski-Moriya interaction, which is consistent with observation.
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