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In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

The ability to control chirality and chiral phonons offers a route to manipulate the direction of spin and angular-momentum transport. In materials with rigid structural chirality, such as quartz, phonon chirality is fixed by the handedness…

Field theories predict that phase transitions sequentially breaking continuous and discrete symmetries can generate hybrid topological structures in which defects of different dimensionalities merge. We report experimental and numerical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-09 Shengzhu Yi , Chao Zhou , Zening Hong , Zhongjie Ma , Mingjun Huang , Satoshi Aya , Rui Zhang , Qi-Huo Wei

Switching in magnetic materials gives rise to rich physical phenomena and lies at the heart of their technological applications. Although domain wall motion in ferro- and antiferromagnets has been studied, in spiral magnets it is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Francesco Foggetti , Margherita Parodi , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Bilayers of two-dimensional van der Waals materials that lack an inversion centre can show a novel form of ferroelectricity, where certain stacking arrangements of the two layers lead to an interlayer polarization. Under an external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-27 Gaurav Chaudhary , Ivar Martin

It is known that the chiral interaction described by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DMI) term lead to the plethora of topological structures of magnetic spins, such as helical or skyrmion phases. Here we present the that analogues electrical DMI…

Malleability of metals is an example of how dynamics of defects like dislocations induced by external stresses alters material properties and enables technological applications. However, these defects move merely to comply with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 Hayley R. O. Sohn , Ivan I. Smalyukh

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

Moir\'e systems provide a highly tunable platform for engineering band structures and exotic correlated phases. Here, we theoretically study a model for a single layer of graphene subject to a smooth moir\'e electrostatic potential, induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-30 Jeyong Park , Lasse Gresista , Simon Trebst , Achim Rosch , Jinhong Park

Historically, the soft mode theory of ferroelectric phase transitions has been developed for the high-temperature (paraelectric) phase, where the phonon mode softens upon decreasing the temperature. In the low-temperature ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-19 Luigi Casella , Alessio Zaccone

Features of the phonon spectrum of a chiral crystal are examined within the micropolar elasticity theory. This formalism accounts for not only translational micromotions of a medium but also rotational ones. It is found that there appears…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 J. Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov , A. A. Tereshchenko

Localization, in the form of adiabatic shear, is analyzed in viscoplastic solids that may undergo structural transformation driven by pressure, shear stress, temperature, and magnetic field. As pertinent to polycrystalline metals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 John D. Clayton

The interplay between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and superconductivity provides a rich platform for discovering novel quantum phenomena. Here, we develop an effective theory and propose a heterostructure composed of an antiferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-02 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

The ordering of magnetic or electric dipoles leading to real-space topological structures is at the forefront of materials research as their quantum mechanical nature often lends itself to emergent properties. Atomic lattice vibrations…

A model of shear thickening in dense suspensions of Brownian soft sphere colloidal particles is established. It suggests that shear thickening in soft sphere suspensions can be interpreted as a shear induced phase transition. Based on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-12 Joachim Kaldasch , Bernhard Senge , Jozua Laven

The spontaneous emergence of chirality in crystalline solids has profound implications for electronic, optical, and topological properties, making the control of chiral phases a central challenge in materials design. Here, we investigate…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Martin Gutierrez-Amigo , Claudia Felser , Ion Errea , Maia G. Vergniory

A clear understanding of chirality in spin-active electronic states is discussed in order to address confusions about chiral effects recently discovered in materials science. Electronic toroidal monopole $G_0$ can serve as a measure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Hiroaki Kusunose , Jun-ichiro Kishine , Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

When subjected to electro-mechanical loading, ferroelectrics see their polarization evolve through the nucleation and evolution of domains. Existing mesoscale phase-field models for ferroelectrics are typically based on a gradient-descent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Laurent Guin , Dennis Kochmann

Particle-like topological structures such as skyrmions and vortices have garnered ever-increasing interests due to the rich physical insights and potential broad applications. Here we discover the reversible switching between polar skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Zijian Hong , Long-Qing Chen

Twisting layers provide a rich ore for exotic physics in low dimensions. Despite the abundant discoveries of twistronics from the aspect of electronic structures, ferroic moir\'e textures are more plain and thus less concerned. Rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Haoshen Ye , Shuai Dong