no code implementations • 12 Jan 2021 • Yu-Tsun Shao, Sujit Das, Zijian Hong, Ruijuan Xu, Swathi Chandrika, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Pablo García-Fernández, Long-Qing Chen, Harold Y. Hwang, Javier Junquera, Lane W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, David A. Muller
With the discovery of topologically-stable polar skyrmions, it is of both fundamental and practical interest to understand the microscopic nature and the possibility of temperature- and strain-driven phase transitions in ensembles of such polar skyrmions.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2020 • Kayla X. Nguyen, Yi Jiang, Michael C. Cao, Prafull Purohit, Ajay K. Yadav, Pablo García-Fernández, Mark W. Tate, Celesta S. Chang, Pablo Aguado-Puente, Jorge Íñiguez, Fernando Gomez-Ortiz, Sol M. Gruner, Javier Junquera, Lane W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D. A. Muller
We find that the presence of an electric toroidal moment in a ferro-rotational phase transfers a measurable torque and orbital angular momentum to the electron beam.
Materials Science Applied Physics