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Exciton transport in 2D semiconductors holds promise for room-temperature, ultra-compact optoelectronic devices, but it is limited by short propagation distances. Hybridization of excitons with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons can…

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Ferroelectric switching governs the functional properties of ferroelectric perovskites. It is widely accepted that this switching depends on domain nucleation and pinning and that these processes can be controlled by the defect structure.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-16 Himal Wijekoon , Pierre Hirel , Anna Grünebohm

The propagation of a heat pulse in a single crystal and across grain boundaries (GBs) is simulated using a concurrent atomistic-continuum method furnished with a coherent phonon pulse model. With a heat pulse constructed based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Xiang Chen , Weixuan Li , Liming Xiong , Yang Li , Shengfeng Yang , Zexi Zheng , David L. McDowell , Youping Chen

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk N\'{e}el phase below the N\'{e}el temperature. The spin exchange between the two order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present an analysis of acoustic phonon propagation through long, free-standing, insulating wires with rough surfaces. Due to a crossover from ballistic propagation of the lowest-frequency phonon mode at $\omega <\omega _{1}=\pi c/W$ to a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kambili , G. Fagas , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , C. J. Lambert

The interplay of the electron-phonon interaction and of the double and super exchange magnetic effects is analyzed in the $La_{1-x}Ca_xMnO_3$ perovskites with $0<x<0.5$. By using an analytical variational scheme that allows to treat the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , G. Iadonisi

Natural interfaces in ferroic oxides have developed into versatile playgrounds for studying electronic correlation effects in 2D systems. The microscopic origin of the emergent local electronic properties is often debated, however, as…

Pressure-induced polarization switching in ferroelectric thin films has emerged as a powerful method for domain patterning, allowing to create predefined domain patterns on free surfaces and under thin conductive top electrodes. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Ye Cao , Anna Morozovska , Sergei V. Kalinin

While electrical compatibility constraints normally prevent head-to-head (HH) and tail-to-tail (TT) domain walls from forming in ferroelectric materials, we propose that such domain walls could be stabilized by intentional growth of atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-17 Xifan Wu , David Vanderbilt

The challenge of achieving ultrafast switching of electric polarization in ferroelectric materials remains unsolved, as there is no experimental evidence of such switching to date. In this study, we have developed an enhanced model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-03 Petr Zhilyaev , Kirill Brekhov , Elena Mishina , Christian Tantardini

We report on the microwave, terahertz (THz), infrared and Raman spectroscopic studies of $BiMn_{7}O_{12}$ ceramics, shedding more light into the nature of two structural phase transitions and their possible relation with ferroelectricity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-08 A. Maia , M. Kempa , V. Bovtun , R. Vilarinho , C. Kadlec , J. Agostinho Moreira , A. A. Belik , P. Proschek , S. Kamba

Interface physics in oxide heterostructures is pivotal in material's science. Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic systems are examples of naturally occurring interfaces, where order parameter of neighboring domains is modified and emerging…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-08 Josep Fontcuberta , Vassil Skumryev , Vladimir Laukhin , Xavier Granados , Ekhard K. H. Salje

We carry out a detailed analysis of the short-wave (semiclassical) approximation for the linear equations of the elasticity in a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium. It is shown that the polarization properties of the transverse waves…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Yu. Bliokh , V. D. Freilikher

We deduce the intrinsic conductivity properties of the ferroelectric domain walls around the topologically protected domain vortex cores in multiferroic YMnO3. This is achieved by performing a careful equivalent-circuit analysis of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-25 E. Ruff , S. Krohns , M. Lilienblum , D. Meier , M. Fiebig , P. Lunkenheimer , A. Loidl

Transition metal oxides hold great potential for the development of new device paradigms because of the field-tunable functionalities driven by their strong electronic correlations, combined with their earth abundance and environmental…

Flat phonon bands in fluorite ferroelectrics (HfO2 or ZrO2) shrink polar domains laterally to an irreducible half-unit-cell width (0.27 nm) within which the vertical arrangement of dipoles is expected to remain uniform. We report on the…

The periodically poled ferroelectric wafer is a two-dimensional phononic superlattice. The important applications of such a solid include novel ultrasonic transducers at the micro/nano-scale for low intensity ultra-sonography, ferroelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Igor Ostrovskii , Lucien Cremaldi

Unlike classical heat diffusion at the macroscale, nanoscale heat transport can occur without energy dissipation because phonons can travel in straight lines for hundreds of nanometres. Despite recent experimental evidence of such ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Roman Anufriev , Aymeric Ramiere , Jeremie Maire , Masahiro Nomura

Extraordinary physical properties arise at polar interfaces in oxide materials, including the emergence of two-dimensional electron gases, sheet-superconductivity, and multiferroicity. A special type of polar interface are ferroelectric…

Circularly polarized phonons offer a new route for mediating angular momentum in solids. However, controlling phonon angular momentum without altering the material's structure or composition remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-16 Fangliang Wu , Jing Zhou , Song Bao , Liangyue Li , Jinsheng Wen , Yuan Wan , Qi Zhang