Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering

The polar chiral texture of the vortex or skyrmion structure in ferroelectric oxide PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice attracts attention. Here, the authors report a theoretical framework to probe emergent chirality of electrical polarization textures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kook Tae Kim, Margaret R. McCarter, Vladimir A. Stoica, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Elizabeth P. Donoway, David M. Burn, Padraic Shafer, Fanny Rodolakis, Mauro A. P. Gonçalves, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Jorge Íñiguez, Pablo García-Fernández, Javier Junquera, Sandhya Susarla, Stephen W. Lovesey, Gerrit van der Laan, Se Young Park, Lane W. Martin, John W. Freeland, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Dong Ryeol Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5