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Ferroelectric materials embedded with dielectric inclusions offer a unique platform for exploring novel topological polar textures. Using first-principles-based atomistic simulations, we investigate the polarization behavior of a BaTiO$_3$…

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We study the equilibrium arrangements of polarization vortices in (PbTiO$_3$)$_n$/(SrTiO$_3$)$_n$ superlattices by means of second-principles simulations. We find that, at low temperatures, polarization vortices organize in a regular…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-29 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Pablo García-Fernández , Juan M. López , Javier Junquera

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

Polar topological structures in ferroelectric thin films have recently drawn significant interest due to their fascinating physical behaviors and promising applications in high-density nonvolatile memories. However, most polar topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-26 Bo Xu , Zhanpeng Gong , Jingran Liu , Yunfei Hong , Yang Yang , Lou Li , Yilun Liu , Junkai Deng , Jefferson Zhe Liu

The collective dynamics of topological structures have been of great interest from both fundamental and applied perspectives. For example, the studies of dynamical properties of magnetic vortices and skyrmions not only deepened the…

The controllable phase transition and nanopatterning of topological states in a ferroelectric system under external stimuli are critical for realizing the potential applications in nanoelectronic devices such as logic, memory, race-track,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Lizhe Hu , Linming Zhou , Yuhui Huang , Sujit Das , He Tian , Yongjun Wu , Zijian Hong

We introduce a model of vortices in type-II superconductors with a four-fold anisotropy in the vortex-vortex interaction potential. Using numerical simulations we show that the vortex lattice undergoes structural transitions as the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-30 M. W. Olszewski , M. R. Eskildsen , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Order-disorder transitions are widely explored in various vortex structures in condensed matter physics, i.e., in the type-II superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. In this study, we have investigated the ordering of the polar…

Dynamics of magnetic vortex core switching in nanometer-scale permalloy disk, having a single vortex ground state, was investigated by micromagnetic modeling. When an in-plane magnetic field pulse with an appropriate strength and duration…

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Magnetic vortices and skyrmions represent two fundamental classes of topological spin textures in ferromagnetic systems, distinguished by their unique stabilization mechanisms and degrees of freedom. Vortices, characterized by circular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Haobing Zhang , Xintao Fan , Weiwei Wang

Room-temperature polar skyrmion bubbles that are recently found in oxide superlattice, have received enormous interests for their potential applications in nanoelectronics due to the nanometer size, emergent chirality, and negative…

Topological semimetals in ferromagnetic materials have attracted enormous attention due to the potential applications in spintronics. Using the first-principles density functional theory together with an effective lattice model, here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-12 Xiaodong Zhou , Run-Wu Zhang , Zeying Zhang , Da-Shuai Ma , Wanxiang Feng , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

We study the properties of dipolar fermions trapped in one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattices and show the existence of fractional topological states in the presence of strong dipole-dipole interactions. We find some interesting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-28 Zhihao Xu , Linhu Li , Shu Chen

We perform real-time stereoscopic wide-area imaging of a ferroelectric phase-transition in KTN:Li. Spontaneous polarization is observed to form a thermally hysteretic 3D lattice of mutually interlinked closed-flux patterns that spans the…

Skyrmions, topologically-protected nanometric spin vortices, are being investigated extensively in various magnets. Among them, many of structurally-chiral cubic magnets host the triangular-lattice skyrmion crystal (SkX) as the…

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We investigate theoretically globally nonuniform configurations of quantized-flux vortices in clean superconductors trapped by an external force field that induces a nonuniform vortex density profile. Using an extensive series of numerical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-09 Raí M. Menezes , Clécio C. de Souza Silva

In the framework of the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach coupled with electrostatic equations, we performed finite element modeling of the polarization behavior in a ferroelectric barium titanate core covered with a tunable paraelectric…

We describe ferroelectric thin films with circular electrodes and develop a thermodynamic theory that explains previously mysterious experiments. It is found to be especially useful for restricted geometries such as microstructures for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Laurent Baudry , Anaïs Sené , Igor A. Luk'yanchuk , Laurent Lahoche , James F Scott

Controlling the polarization switching in the ferroelectric nanocrystals, nanowires and nanodots has an inherent specificity related to the emergence of depolarization field that is associated with the spontaneous polarization. This field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Pierre-William Martelli , Séraphin M. Mefire , Igor Luk'yanchuk

The remarkable advances achieved in two-dimensional materials are now being directly transposed to low-dimensional oxides. Here we show using first-principles-based atomistic simulations that ultrathin freestanding ferroelectric layers host…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Franco N. Di Rino , Tim Verhagen