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The combination of metallicity and ferroelectricity breaks traditional boundaries, paving new avenues for innovative electronic materials and devices. This breakthrough is particularly notable, as metallicity and ferroelectricity have…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-09 Jiagang Zhang , Ting Zhang

Measurements of ferroelectric polarization and dielectric constant were done on $R$Mn$_2$O$_5$ ($R$=Tb, Dy, and Ho) with applied hydrostatic pressures of up to 18 kbar. At ambient pressure, distinctive anomalies were observed in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 C. R. dela Cruz , B. Lorenz , Y. Y. Sun , Y. Wang , S. Park , S-W. Cheong , M. M. Gospodinov , C. W. Chu

General microscopic mechanism of ferroelectric ordering in chiral smectic C* liquid crystals is considered. It is shown that if the mesogenic molecules have a sufficiently low symmetry, the spontaneous polarization is proportional to one of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Osipov , M. V. Gorkunov

A crystalline solid is a periodic sequence of identical cells, each containing one or more atoms. If the constituting unit cell is not centrosymmetric, charge may distribute unevenly between the atoms, resulting in internal electric…

Ferroelectricity is commonly understood in terms of dynamical charges, which represent the dipole moments generated by atomic displacements or the forces induced by electric fields. In ferroelectrics with a high degree of symmetry, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Daniel Bennett , Philippe Ghosez

Beyond a conventional classification of ferroelectricity, there is a class of materials where electronic degrees of freedom and electronic interactions are directly responsible for electric polarization and ferroelectric transition. This is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Sumio Ishihara

Recent thermodynamic measurements on two-dimensional (2D) electron systems have found diverging behavior in the magnetic susceptibility and appearance of ferromagnetism with decreasing electron density. The critical densities for these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Fazeli , K. Esfarjani , B. Tanatar

Although multiferroics have undergone extensive examination for several decades, the occurrence of ferroelectricity induced by orbital order is only scarcely documented. In this study, we propose the existence of spontaneous ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Xiao-Feng Luo , Xu He , Rui Wang , Hongjun Xiang , Jin-Zhu Zhao

We report electric polarization and magnetization measurements in single crystals of double perovskite Lu2MnCoO6 using pulsed magnetic fields and optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in DC magnetic fields. we observe well-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 S. Chikara , J. Singleton , J. Bowlan , D. A. Yarotski , N. Lee , H. Y. Choi , Y. J. Choi , V. S. Zapf

The emerging interest in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs), formed at interfaces between two insulating oxide perovskites poses crucial fundamental question in view of future electronic devices. In the framework of density-functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-09 Le Fang , Wahib Aggoune , Wei Ren , Claudia Draxl

In recent years, sliding ferroelectricity has emerged as a topic of significant interest due to its possible application in non-volatile, reconfigurable storage devices. This phenomenon is unique to two-dimensional van der Waals materials,…

Due to their combination of mechanical stiffness and flexibility, two-dimensional (2D) materials have received significant interest as potential electromechanical materials. Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling between strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Brahmanandam Javvaji , Bo He , Xiaoying Zhuang , Harold S Park

Ferroelectrics are attractive candidate materials for environmentally friendly solid state refrigeration free of greenhouse gases. Their thermal response upon variations of external electric fields is largest in the vicinity of their phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-20 G. G. Guzmán-Verri , P. B. Littlewood

The emergence of two-dimensional crystals has revolutionized modern solid-state physics. From a fundamental point of view, the enhancement of charge carrier correlations has sparked enormous research activities in the transport- and quantum…

Ferroelectricity, a spontaneous and reversible electric polarization, is found in certain classes of van der Waals (vdW) material heterostructures. The discovery of ferroelectricity in twisted vdW layers provides new opportunities to…

In ferroelectrics, complex interactions among various degrees of freedom enable the condensation of topologically protected polarization textures. Known as ferroelectric solitons, these particle-like structures represent a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-02 V. Govinden , P. R. Tong , X. Guo , Q. Zhang , S. Mantri , S. Prokhorenko , Y. Nahas , Y. Wu , L. Bellaiche , H. Tian , Z. Hong , D. Sando , V. Nagarajan

The origin of magnetic frustration was stated and the ions whose shift is accompanied by emerging magnetic ordering and ferroelectricity in TbMn2O5 and BiMn2O5 were determined on the basis of calculation of magnetic coupling parameters by…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-03 L. M. Volkova , D. V. Marinin

We establish the consistency of the Fermi liquid description and find a relation between Fermi liquid constants for the two dimensional electron system near the point of full polarization due to a parallel magnetic field $H$. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-11 G. Zala , B. N. Narozhny , I. L. Aleiner , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Recent theoretical and experimental advances in quantum ferroelectrics suggest that ferroelectricity can also emerge in non-polar space group, highlighting the limitations of conventional polar space group criteria in identifying…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Wei Luo , Shihan Deng , Hongjun Xiang , Laurent Bellaiche

Out-of-plane and in-plane electric polarization, which rarely coexist in a two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric material, offer different advantages in ferroelectricity-based devices. Here, we report the coexistence of in-plane and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 A. D. Molchanova , L. H. Yin , L. P. Gao , W. H. Song , Y. P. Sun , K. R. Allahverdiyev , M. N. Popova