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When the atomic layers in a non-centrosymmetric van der Waals structure slide against each other, the interfacial charge transfer results in a reversal of the structures spontaneous polarization. This phenomenon is known as sliding…

Employing many-valued logic (MVL) data processing allows to dramatically increase the performance of computing circuits. Here we propose to employ ferroelectrics for the material implementation of MVL units basing on their ability to pin…

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

Understanding the polarization switching mechanisms at play in ferroelectric materials is crucial for their exploitation in electronic devices. The conventional centrosymmetric reference structure-based mechanism which accounts for…

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

Topological polar textures in ferroelectrics have attracted significant interest for their potential for energy-efficient and high-density data storage and processing. Among these, polar merons and antimerons are predicted in strained and…

According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

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

Two-dimensional multiferroic materials are highly sought after due to their huge potential for applications in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. Here, we predict, based on first-principle calculations, a single phase {\it triferroic}…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-07 Srishti Bhardwaj , T. Maitra

The interplay between ferroelectricity and band topology can give rise to a wide range of both fundamental and applied research. Here, we map out the emergence of nontrivial corner states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics, and remarkably…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 Ning Mao , Runhan Li , Xiaorong Zou , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

We propose through first-principles investigation that GaTeCl monolayer is an excellent two-dimensional multiferroics with giant mechanical anisotropy and ferroelasticity. The calculated phonon spectrum, molecular dynamic simulations, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Shi-Hao Zhang , Bang-Gui Liu

Macroscopic descriptions of ferroelectrics have an obvious appeal in terms of efficiency and physical intuition. Their predictive power, however, has often been thwarted by the lack of a systematicp rocedure to extract the relevant…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-07 Oswaldo Diéguez , Massimiliano Stengel

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic heterostructures present a promising platform for advanced spin devices by leveraging the coexisting ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) orders. Through first-principles calculations and micromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-14 Zheng Chen , Hongliang Hu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiaoping Wu , Ping Li , Changsheng Song

Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phenomena such as the massless Dirac cone2, anomalous quantum…

We present a detailed theoretical study of bilayer-graphene's electronic properties in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. Using group-theoretical methods, we derive an invariant expansion of the Hamiltonian for electron states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 R. Winkler , U. Zülicke

Due to their combination of mechanical stiffness and flexibility, two-dimensional (2D) materials have received significant interest as potential electromechanical materials. Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling between strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Brahmanandam Javvaji , Bo He , Xiaoying Zhuang , Harold S Park

We introduce a many-body state termed superpolarized electron-hole liquid to explain the multiferroic properties observed in a recent experiment on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene by Han et al. [Nature 623, 41-47, 2023] . Superpolarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Mainak Das , Chunli Huang

While preserving many of the unusual features of single-layer graphene, few-layer graphene (FLG) provides a richness and flexibility of electronic structure that render this set of materials of great interest for both fundamental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 Kin Fai Mak , Matthew Y. Sfeir , James A. Misewich , Tony F. Heinz

The review is focused on our recent predictions of nontrivial physical phenomena taking place in the nanostructure single-layer grapheme on ferroelectric substrate, which are related with magnetic field. In particular we predicted that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Maksym V. Strikha , Anna N. Morozovska , Zhanna G. Zemska