Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions.

Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
04 2019
Historique:
received: 15 07 2018
accepted: 07 03 2019
entrez: 19 4 2019
pubmed: 19 4 2019
medline: 19 4 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Complex topological configurations are fertile ground for exploring emergent phenomena and exotic phases in condensed-matter physics. For example, the recent discovery of polarization vortices and their associated complex-phase coexistence and response under applied electric fields in superlattices of (PbTiO

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1092-8 PMID: 30996320
pubmed: 30996320
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1092-8
pii: 10.1038/s41586-019-1092-8
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

368-372

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

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Auteurs

S Das (S)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. sujitdas@berkeley.edu.

Y L Tang (YL)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Z Hong (Z)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

M A P Gonçalves (MAP)

Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg.

M R McCarter (MR)

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

C Klewe (C)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

K X Nguyen (KX)

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

F Gómez-Ortiz (F)

Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.

P Shafer (P)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

E Arenholz (E)

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

V A Stoica (VA)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

S-L Hsu (SL)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

B Wang (B)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

C Ophus (C)

National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

J F Liu (JF)

Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

C T Nelson (CT)

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

S Saremi (S)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

B Prasad (B)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

A B Mei (AB)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

D G Schlom (DG)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, USA.

J Íñiguez (J)

Materials Research and Technology Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg.
Physics and Material Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg.

P García-Fernández (P)

Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.

D A Muller (DA)

Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY, USA.
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

L Q Chen (LQ)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

J Junquera (J)

Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.

L W Martin (LW)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

R Ramesh (R)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rramesh@berkeley.edu.
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. rramesh@berkeley.edu.
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. rramesh@berkeley.edu.

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