Global Formation of Topological Defects in the Multiferroic Hexagonal Manganites

The spontaneous transformations associated with symmetry-breaking phase transitions generate domain structures and defects that may be topological in nature. The formation of these defects can be described according to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, which provides a generic relation that applies from c...

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Autors principals: Q. N. Meier, M. Lilienblum, S. M. Griffin, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, D. Meier, F. Lichtenberg, E. K. H. Salje, N. A. Spaldin, M. Fiebig, A. Cano
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: American Physical Society 2017-10-01
Col·lecció:Physical Review X
Accés en línia:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041014