English

A Perspective on Ferrons

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-02-28 v1

Abstract

The duality between electric and magnetic dipoles in electromagnetism only partly applies to condensed matter. In particular, the elementary excitations of the magnetic and ferroelectric orders, namely magnons and ferrons, respectively, have received asymmetric attention from the condensed matter community in the past. In this perspective, we introduce and summarize the current state of the budding field of "ferronics" and speculate about its potential applications in thermal, information, and communication technology.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.12985,
  title  = {A Perspective on Ferrons},
  author = {G. E. W. Bauer and P. Tang and R. Iguchi and J. Xiao and K. Shen and Z. Zhong and T. Yu and S. M. Rezende and J. P. Heremans and K. Uchida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12985},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

To be published as invited "Perspective" in Physical Review Applied

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:49:18.992Z