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Understanding the fundamental dynamics of topological vortex and antivortex naturally formed in micro/nanoscale ferromagnetic building blocks under external perturbations is crucial to magnetic vortex based information processing and…
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We study a vortex in a nanostripe of an antiferromagnet with easy-plane anisotropy and interfacial Dzyloshinskii-Moriya interaction. The vortex has hybrid chirality being N\'eel close to its center and Bloch away from it. Propagating…
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Electrical manipulation of antiferromagnetic states, a cornerstone of antiferromagnetic spintronics, is a great challenge, requiring novel material platforms. Here we report the full control over antiferromagnetic states by voltage pulses…
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Bounded charges induced by the polarization gradient in finite-size ferroelectrics are known to produce the unfavorable depolarization electric field that suppresses the uniform ferroelectric state. To reduce the depolarization energy the…
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