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Magneto-electric multiferroics exemplified by TbMnO3 possess both magnetic and ferroelectric long-range order. The magnetic order is mostly understood, whereas the nature of the ferroelectricity has remained more elusive. Competing models…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-14 H. C. Walker , F. Fabrizi , L. Paolasini , F. de Bergevin , J. Herrero-Martin , A. T. Boothroyd , D. Prabhakaran , D. F. McMorrow

The ferroelectricity of multiferroics induced by spin order is commonly explained by considering either purely electronic or ion-displacement contribution. However, there is no general model which includes both effects simultaneously. Here,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-01 H. J. Xiang , P. S. Wang , M. -H. Whangbo , X. G. Gong

Multiferroic materials have attracted much interest due to the unusual coexistence of ferroelectric and (anti-)ferromagnetic ground states in a single compound. They offer an exciting platform for new physics and potentially novel devices.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-14 Je-Geun Park , Manh Duc Le , Jaehong Jeong , Sanghyun Lee

We design a multiferroic metal that combines seemingly incompatible ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, and metallicity by hole doping a two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric with high density of states near the Fermi level. The strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-12 Xu Duan , Jiawei Huang , Bin Xu , Shi Liu

We report a phenomenological magneto-structural model based on competing free-energy terms that couple either polar or chiral distortions in cubic quadruple perovskites, depending on the global direction of magnetic moments. The model…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-05 M. Tardieux , E. Stylianidis , D. Behr , R. Liu , K. Yamaura , D. D. Khalyavin , D. R. Bowler , A. A. Belik , R. D. Johnson

Multiferroic materials, in which electric polarization and magnetic order coexist and couple, offer rich opportunities for both fundamental discovery and technology. However, multiferroicity remains rare due to conflicting electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-14 Y. Sun , Y. Ahn , D. Sapkota , H. S. Arachchige , R. Xue , S. Mozaffari , D. G. Mandrus , L. Zhao , J. Orenstein , V. Sunko

We present a strategy to design structures for which a polar lattice distortion induces weak ferromagnetism. We identify a large class of multiferroic oxides as potential realizations and use density-functional theory to screen several…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Craig J. Fennie

The contribution of the polarization associated with the noncollinear parts of spins in the dielectric permeability tensor of multiferroic materials is considered. As the equilibrium state, we consider the systems of parallel spins, so we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-13 Pavel A. Andreev

The coexistence and coupling of magnetic and ferroelectric orderings in single phase multiferroics has evinced enormous scientific interest as it involves breaking of time reversal and space inversion symmetries in the same material. The…

Two-dimensional (2D) multiferroics exhibit cross-control capacity between magnetic and electric responses in reduced spatial domain, making them well suited for next-generation nanoscale devices; however, progress has been slow in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-15 Jing Shang , Chun Li , Aijun Du , Ting Liao , Yuantong Gu , Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Changfeng Chen

Cross-coupling of ordering parameters in multiferroic materials by multiple external stimuli other than electric field and magnetic field is highly desirable from both practical application and fundamental study points of view. Recently,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-27 Tingting Jia , Hideo Kimura , Zhenxiang Cheng , Hongyang Zhao

Magnetoelectric coupling is crucial for uncovering fundamental phenomena and advancing technologies in high-density data storage and energy-efficient devices. The emergence of altermagnets, which unify the advantages of ferromagnets and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Multiferroic materials, which reveal magnetic and electric order, are in the focus of recent solid state research. Especially the simultaneous occurrence of ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism, combined with an intimate coupling of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hemberger , P. Lunkenheimer , R. Fichtl , H. -A. Krug von Nidda , V. Tsurkan , A. Loidl

In solids, charge polarity can one-to-one correspond to spin polarity phenomenologically, e.g. ferroelectricity/ferromagnetism, antiferroelectricity/antiferromagnetism, and even dipole-vortex/magnetic-vortex, but…

We investigate theoretically the dynamic multiferroic response of coupled ferroelectric/ferromagnetic composites upon excitation by a photo-induced acoustic strain pulse. Two magnetoelectric mechanisms are considered: interface strain- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Chenglong Jia , Ning Zhang , Alexander Sukhov , Jamal Berakdar

We present a simple two-dimensional model in which the lattice degrees of freedom mediate the interactions between magnetic moments and electric dipoles. This model reproduces basic features, such as a sudden electric polarization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 L. Pili , R. A. Borzi , D. C. Cabra , S. A. Grigera

The realization of two-dimensional multiferroics offers significant potential for nanoscale device functionality. However, type-I two-dimensional multiferroics with strong magnetoelectric coupling, enabling electric field control of spin,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-24 Wei Li , Dongyang Zhu , Shuai Dong , Jun-Jie Zhang

Quantum matter hosts a large variety of phases, some coexisting, some competing; when two or more orders occur together, they are often entangled and cannot be separated. Dynamical multiferroicity, where fluctuations of electric dipoles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-20 K. Dunnett , J. -X. Zhu , N. A. Spaldin , V. Juricic , A. V. Balatsky

Altermagnets, with spin splitting and vanishing magnetization, have been attributed to many fascinating phenomena and potential applications. In particular, integrating ferroelectricity with altermagnetism to enable magnetoelectric coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziye Zhu , Yuntian Liu , Xunkai Duan , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Su-Huai Wei , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

Searching for new functionality in next generation electronic devices is a principal driver of material physics research. Multiferroics simultaneously exhibit electric and magnetic order parameters that may be coupled through…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-06 Sae Hwan Chun , Kwang Woo Shin , Kee Hoon Kim , John F. Mitchell , Philip J. Ryan , Jong-Woo Kim