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The mechanisms of magnetoelectric effects in multiferroics with a perovskite parent phase are studied, focusing on the relationship between crystallographic distortions and magnetic and ferroelectric properties. It is shown that crystallographic distortions lead to the formation of a system of electric dipole moments ordered according to the antiferroelectric D-mode in the RCrO3 multiferroic. The polar and axial structural order parameters of RCrO3 are determined, and their classification according to irreducible representations of the \(D_{{2h}}^{{16}}\) symmetry space group is carried out. The magnetic and ferroelectric properties of the Ruddlesden–Popper structures are considered.
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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-52-80024) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 51961145105) and was carried out within a state task for scientific research by laboratories (order no. MN-8/1356 of 20.09.2021).
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Zvezdin, A.K., Gareeva, Z.V. & Chen, X.M. Magnetoelectric Effect in Multiferroics with a Perovskite Structure. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 123, 651–655 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X22070213
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