Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction-Induced Magnetoelectric Coupling in a tetrahedral Molecular Spin-Frustrated System

Abstract: We have investigated magnetoelectric coupling in the single-molecule magnet $\mathrm{Mn}{4}\mathrm{Te}{4}(\mathrm{P}\mathrm{Et}{3}){4}$ with tetrahedral spin frustration. Our density functional studies found that an electric dipole moment can emerge with various non-collinear spin orderings. The forms of spin-dependent dipole are determined and consistent with that in non-centrosymmetric magnets driven by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Writing a parameterized spin Hamiltonian, after solving for eigenvalues and eigenstates we quantified the magnetoelectric coupling by calculating the thermal average of the electric and magnetic susceptibilities, which can be influenced by external magnetic and electric fields, respectively. The quadratic relations are expected to be observable in experiments.