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Dielectric spectroscopy is used to check for the onset of polar order in the quasi one-dimensional quantum spin system Sul-Cu2Cl4 when passing from the spin-liquid state into the ordered spiral phase in an external magnetic field. We find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-20 F. Schrettle , S. Krohns , P. Lunkenheimer , A. Loidl , E. Wulf , T. Yankova , A. Zheludev

Magnetoelectric coupling in insulating multiferroic materials is invaluable for both fundamental research and multifunctional device applications. However, material realization remains a significant challenge. We employ first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Xilong Xu , Li Yang

We uncover a new pathway towards multiferroicity, showing how magnetism can drive ferroelectricity without relying on inversion symmetry breaking of the magnetic ordering. Our free-energy analysis demonstrates that any commensurate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Joseph J. Betouras , Gianluca Giovannetti , Jeroen van den Brink

Magnetoelectric multiferroics in which ferroelectricity and magnetism coexist have attracted extensive attention because they provide great opportunities for the mutual control of electric polarization by magnetic fields and magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-25 Fen Wang , Tao Zou , Li-Qin Yan , Yi Liu , Young Sun

Deterministically controllable multi-state polarizations in ferroelectric materials are promising for the application of next-generation non-volatile multi-state memory devices. However, the achievement of multi-state polarizations has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-19 Chao Chen , Deyang Chen , Peilian Li , Minghui Qin , Xubing Lu , Guofu Zhou , Xingsen Gao , Jun-Ming Liu

All-electrical and programmable manipulations of ferromagnetic bits are highly pursued for the aim of high integration and low energy consumption in modern information technology. Methods based on the spin-orbit torque switching in heavy…

Multiferroics, which combine ferroelectric and magnetic order, offer a transformative platform for next-generation electronic devices. However, the intrinsic competition between the mechanisms driving ferroelectricity and magnetism in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 M. Q. Dong , B. Liu , Z. H. Dai , Zhi-Xin Guo , Hongjun Xiang , Xin-Gao Gong

We study a quantum Otto engine operating on the basis of a helical spin- 1/2 multiferroic chain with strongly coupled magnetic and ferroelectric order parameters. The presence of a finite spin chirality in the working substance enables…

Electrical control of spins at the nanoscale offers significant architectural advantages in spintronics, because electric fields can be confined over shorter length scales than magnetic fields. Thus, recent demonstrations of electric-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Junjie Liu , Jakub Mrozek , Aman Ullah , Yan Duan , José J. Baldoví , Eugenio Coronado , Alejandro Gaita-Ariño , Arzhang Ardavan

Multiferroic materials provide robust and efficient routes for the control of magnetism by electric fields, which has been diligently sought after for a long time. The two-dimensional (2D) vdW multiferroics is a more exciting endeavour. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-18 Yangliu Wu , Deju Zhang , Yanning Zhang , Longjiang Deng , Bo Peng

In multiferroic oxides with a transverse helical magnetic order, the magnetization exchange coupling is sinusoidally space-dependent. We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent electron grating effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Rui Zhu

Electric field-induced magnetization switching in multiferroics holds profound promise for ultra-low-energy computing in beyond Moore's law era. Bistable nanomagnets in the multiferroics are usually deemed to be suitable for storing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Kuntal Roy

We study the spin-dependent magneto conductance in mesoscopic rings subject to an inhomogeneous in-plane magnetic field. We show that the polarization direction of transmitted spin-polarized electrons can be controlled via an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

A material that reveals two or more ferroelectric properties at the same time is called multiferroic materials. The most commonly multiferroic materials shows ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism property within a single phase. Accordingly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Manjeet Seth

The magnetic structure of multiferroic Ni$_3$V$_2$O$_8$ has been investigated using non-resonant X-ray magnetic scattering. Incident circularly polarized X-rays combined with full polarization analysis of the scattered beam is shown to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Fabrizi , H. C. Walker , L. Paolasini , F. de Bergevin , T. Fennell , N. Rogado , R. J. Cava , Th. Wolf , M. Kenzelmann , D. F. McMorrow

Apart from being so far the only known binary multiferroic compound, CuO has a much higher transition temperature into the multiferroic state, 230 K, than any other known material in which the electric polarization is induced by spontaneous…

We show theoretically with an accurate spin Hamiltonian describing the multiferroic Mn perovskites that the application of the picosecond optical pulse with a terahertz frequency can switch the spin chirality through intensely exciting the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-29 Masahito Mochizuki , Naoto Nagaosa

Despite remarkable progress in developing multifunctional materials, spin-driven ferroelectrics featuring both spontaneous magnetization and electric polarization are still rare. Among such ferromagnetic ferroelectrics are conical spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-09 T. Honda , J. S. White , A. B. Harris , L. C. Chapon , A. Fennell , B. Roessli , O. Zaharko , Y. Murakami , M. Kenzelmann , T. Kimura

Information technologies require entangling data stability with encryption for a next generation of secure data storage. Current magnetic memories, ranging from low-density stripes up to high-density hard drives, can ultimately be detected…

The coexistence and coupling between magnetization and electric polarization in multiferroic materials provide extra degrees of freedom for creating next-generation memory devices. A variety of concepts of multiferroic or magnetoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-23 Jianxin Shen , Junzhuang Cong , Dashan Shang , Yisheng Chai , Shipeng Shen , Kun Zhai , Young Sun