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Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

We consider phase separated states in magnetic oxides (MO) thin films. We show that these states have a non-zero electric polarization. Moreover, the polarization is intimately related to a spatial distribution of magnetization in the film.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 O. G. Udalov , I. S. Beloborodov

Ferroelectric materials are established candidates for beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, owing to their non-volatile spontaneous electrical polarization. The recent boom in electric dipole texture engineering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Bixin Yan , Valentine Gillioz , Ipek Efe , Morgan Trassin

Modern opto-electronic devices are based on semiconductor heterostructures employing the process of electron-hole pair annihilation. In particular polar materials enable a variety of classic and even quantum light sources, whose on-going…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 G. M. O. Hönig , S. Westerkamp , A. Hoffmann , G. Callsen

Ionic crystals terminated at oppositely charged polar surfaces are inherently unstable and expected to undergo surface reconstructions to maintain electrostatic stability. Essentially, an electric field that arises between oppositely…

We review existing manifestations and prospects for ferroelectricity in electronically and optically active carbon-based materials. The focus point is the proposal for the electronic ferroelectricity in conjugated polymers from the family…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Natasha Kirova , Serguei Brazovskii

We theoretically study the electric polarization in magnetic topological nodal semimetal thin films. In magnetically doped topological insulators, topological nodal semimetal phases emerge once the exchange coupling overcomes the band gap.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Yuya Ominato , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura

We report a molecular-dynamics simulation of a single-component system of particles interacting via a spherically symmetric potential that is found to form, upon cooling from a liquid state, a low-density porous crystalline phase. Its…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-17 Alfredo Metere , Peter Oleynikov , Mikhail Dzugutov , Michael O'Keeffe

Despite the highly porous nature with significantly large surface area, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) can be hardly used in electronic, and optoelectronic devices due to their extremely poor electrical conductivity. Therefore, the study…

Metamaterials made of periodic arrangements of electric permittivity and magnetic permeability and arrays of resonators can provide optic properties unexperienced in conventional materials, such as negative refractive index which can be…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-16 Yuan Li , Yong Sun , Weiwei Zhu , Zhiwei Guo , Jun Jiang , Toshikaze Kariyado , Hong Chen , Xiao Hu

Covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) are intriguing platforms for designing functional molecular materials. Here, we present a computational study based on van der Waals dispersion-corrected hybrid density functional theory calculations to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-09 Srimanta Pakhira , Kevin P. Lucht , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

A method for specular reflection of polar molecules is proposed. Electrostatatic potentials and forces are calculated for a low-field-seeking molecule near a series of long cylindrical electrodes of radius $r$ with dc potentials of $+V$ and…

By virtue of their open network structures and low densities, metal--organic frameworks (MOFs) are soft materials that exhibit elastic instabilities at low applied stresses. The conventional strategy for improving elastic stability is to…

We develop an efficient Ewald method of molecular dynamics simulation for calculating the electrostatic interactions among charged and polar particles between parallel metallic plates, where we may apply an electric field with an arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-01 Kyohei Takae , Akira Onuki

Two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) hold immense potential for various applications due to their distinctive intrinsic properties compared to their 3D analogues. Herein, we designed in silico a highly stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-31 Dong Fan , Aydin Ozcan , Pengbo Lyu , Guillaume Maurin

The interaction between light and vapors in the presence of magnetic fields is fundamental to many quantum technologies and applications. Recently, the ability to geometrically confine atoms into periodic structures has enabled the creation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Ori Nefesh , Heleni Krelman , Kfir Levi , Liron Stern

In this work we have performed an analysis of electrostriction mechanism of optical to acoustical energy conversion on the interface of two materials with low optical absorption. We compared this method of conversion with widely used…

The binding energy of an electron in a material is a fundamental characteristic, which determines a wealth of important chemical and physical properties. For metal-organic frameworks this quantity is hitherto unknown. We present a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-06 Keith T. Butler , Christopher H. Hendon , Aron Walsh

When electrically stimulated, electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond with mechanical deformation. The goal of this work is to design electrode and EAP layouts simultaneously in structures by using density-based, multi-material topology…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Daniel Hård , Mathias Wallin , Matti Ristinmaa

Many ferroelectric solid solutions exhibit enhanced electro-mechanical properties at the morphotropic boundary separating two phases with different orientations of polarization. The mechanism of properties enhancement is associated with…

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