In ceramics of KTaO3 doped with 3 at. % of Mn the dielectric response is dominated by the polydispersive behavior of Mn2+ centered polar regions, whereas the magnetic and magnetoelectric (ME) behaviors reflect an intimate coupling between A-site substituted Mn2+ ions and minute amounts of Mn3O4 precipitates mediated by the polar host material. This becomes apparent by the common onset at Tc42K of the ordering of ferrimagnetic Mn3O4 and of a spin cluster glass, which is characterized by memory and rejuvenation effects. The composite magnetic system exposed to external magnetic and electric dc fields shows large third order ME susceptibility with a sharp anomaly at Tc and 1/T2 dependence as T0.

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