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We demonstrate room temperature ferroelectricity in the epitaxial thin films of magnetoelectric GaFeO3. Piezo-force measurements show a 180o phase shift of piezoresponse upon switching the electric field indicating nanoscale…
ZrTe5 is a layered material that exhibits intricate topological effects. Intensive theoretically and experimental efforts have been devoted to try to understand the physics in this materials. In this paper the temperature dependent…
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Sub-coercive field non-linearities in $0.5(\text{Ba}_{0.7}\text{Ca}_{0.3}\text{TiO}_{3})-0.5(\text{BaZr}_{0.2}\text{Ti}_{0.8}\text{O}_{3})$ (BCTZ 50/50) thin film elaborated using pulsed laser deposition are studied using permittivity and…
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Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations.…
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We investigate the emergence of topological Hall-like (THE-like) signals in disordered multidomain ferromagnets. Non-monotonic behavior in Hall resistivity, commonly attributed to topological spin textures such as skyrmions, is produced in…
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