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Multiferroics are materials with coexisting electric and magnetic orders that are of central importance for fundamental research and technological applications. Unfortunately, intrinsic multiferroics that operate at room temperature remain…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Ping Tang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Magnetism and transport are two key functional ingredients in modern electronic devices. In oxide heterostructures, ferroelectricity can provide a new route to control these two properties via electrical operations, which is scientifically…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-16 Xin Huang , Shuai Dong

Ferroic multipole orders break some symmetry and often activate unique physical properties, such as nonreciprocal directional dichroism and linear magnetoelectric effects. Here, we demonstrate the control of magnetic toroidal orientation in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Shungo Aoyagi , Shunsuke Kitou , Taka-hisa Arima , Yusuke Tokunaga

The integration of ferroelectric and topological materials offers a promising avenue for advancing the development of quantum material devices. In this work, we explore the strong coupling between topological states and ferroelectricity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Jiaheng Li , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng

In spiral multiferroics, magnetism induces ferroelectricity, thus holding a promise for novel memory devices where an electric field switches magnetic bits. However, such a switching process, in which magnetic domain walls are moved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-03 Luca Maranzana , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Strong coupling of light to a collective spin excitation in antiferromagnets gives rise to hybrid modes called magnon-polaritons. They are highly promising for data manipulation and transfer at terahertz rates, much faster than in the case…

Magnetoelectric effect is a fundamental physics phenomenon that synergizes electric and magnetic degrees of freedom to generate distinct material responses like electrically tuned magnetism, which serves as a key foundation of the emerging…

Multiferroic BaMnF$_4$ powder were prepared by hydrothermal method. Hysteretic field dependent magnetization curve at 5 K confirms the weak ferromagnetism aroused from the canted antiferromagnetic spins by magnetoelectric coupling. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-18 Shuang Zhou , Ji Wang , Xiaofeng Chang , Shuangbao Wang , Bin Qian , Zhida Han , Qingyu Xu , Jun Du , Peng Wang , Shuai Dong

Electric field-induced magnetization switching in multiferroics is intriguing for both fundamental studies and potential technological applications. Here, we review the recent developments on electric field-induced magnetization switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 Kuntal Roy

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…

Controlling magnetic order in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is a key to developing spintronic applications with MTIs, and is commonly achieved by changing the magnetic doping concentration, which inevitably affects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Xiong Yao , Hee Taek Yi , Deepti Jain , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

Understanding magnetoelectric coupling in emerging van der Waals multiferroics is crucial for developing atomically thin spintronic devices. Here, we present a comprehensive first-principles investigation of magnetoelectric coupling in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Hui-Shi Yu , Xiao-Sheng Ni , Kun Cao

We theoretically investigate the thermal Hall transport of magnon-polarons in a two-dimensional honeycomb antiferromagnetic insulator under the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field, varying in strength. The application of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Gyungchoon Go , Heejun Yang , Je-Geun Park , Se Kwon Kim

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…

We study the laser control of magnon topological phases induced by the Aharonov-Casher effect in insulating antiferromagnets (AFs). Since the laser electric field can be considered as a time-periodic perturbation, we apply the Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Kouki Nakata , Se Kwon Kim , Shintaro Takayoshi

We explore the impact of a magnetic field on the ferroelectric domain pattern in polycrystalline hexagonal ErMnO3 at cryogenic temperatures. Utilizing piezoelectric force microscopy measurements at 1.65 K, we observe modifications of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-21 J. Schultheiß , L. Puntigam , M. Winkler , S. Krohns , D. Meier , H. Das , D. M. Evans , I. Kézsmárki

In order to promote the development of the next generation of nano-spintronic devices, it is of great significance to tune the freedom of valley in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here, we propose a mechanism for manipulating the valley and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-11 Hanbo Sun , Yewei Ren , Chao Wu , Pengqiang Dong , Weixi Zhang , Yin-Zhong Wu , Ping Li

Two-dimensional multiferroic van der Waals heterostructures provide a promising platform for the simultaneous control of distinct ferroic orders, with potential applications in magnetoelectric devices and spintronics. The practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Priyanshu Raj , Sourav Mal , Rana Saha , Prasenjit Sen

Polar metals with ferroelectric-like displacements in metals have been achieved recently, half century later than Anderson and Blount's prediction. However, the genuine ferroelectricity with electrical dipolar switching has not yet been…

In multiferroic TbMn$_2$O$_5$, the behavior of the terbium ions forms a crucial part of the magneto-electric coupling. The result is a magnetically induced reversal of the electric polarization at 2 T. In this article we present the first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-27 R. D. Johnson , C. Mazzoli , S. R. Bland , C-H. Du , P. D. Hatton