Ferroelectric incommensurate spin crystals.


Journal

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

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 2022
Historique:
received: 08 03 2021
accepted: 17 11 2021
entrez: 10 2 2022
pubmed: 11 2 2022
medline: 21 4 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Ferroics, especially ferromagnets, can form complex topological spin structures such as vortices

Identifiants

pubmed: 35140385
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04260-1
pii: 10.1038/s41586-021-04260-1
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

240-244

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Dorin Rusu (D)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Jonathan J P Peters (JJP)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Thomas P A Hase (TPA)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

James A Gott (JA)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Gareth A A Nisbet (GAA)

Diamond Light Source, Didcot, UK.

Jörg Strempfer (J)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Daniel Haskel (D)

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.

Samuel D Seddon (SD)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Richard Beanland (R)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Ana M Sanchez (AM)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

Marin Alexe (M)

Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. M.Alexe@warwick.ac.uk.

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