Ferroelectric domain walls have emerged as a new type of interface in which the dynamic
characteristics of ferroelectricity introduce the element of spatial mobility, allowing real-time …

Since its inception more than 25 years ago, Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) has
become one of the mainstream techniques in the field of nanoferroic materials. This review …

Multiferroics are those materials with more than one ferroic order, and magnetoelectricity
refers to the mutual coupling between magnetism (spins and/or magnetic field) and …

In the course of a nonequilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be
adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the …

Kibble-Zurek theory models the dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which plays
an important role in a wide variety of physical contexts, ranging from cosmology to …

Device applications of ferroelectrics have not only utilized the switchable polarization but
also adopted myriads of emerging physical properties. In particular, ferroelectrics in ultra …

The quantum Kibble-Zurek mechanism (QKZM) predicts universal dynamical behavior near
the quantum phase transitions (QPTs). It is now well understood for the one-dimensional …

Ferroelectric domain walls hold great promise as functional two-dimensional materials
because of their unusual electronic properties. Particularly intriguing are the so-called …

We show that the improper ferroelectric phase transition in the multiferroic hexagonal
manganites displays appropriate symmetry-breaking characteristics for testing the Kibble …

Abstract Lars Onsager and Richard Feynman envisaged that the three-dimensional (3D)
superfluid-to-normal λ transition in 4He occurs through the proliferation of vortices. This …