The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

Nanorods, nanowires, and nanotubes of ferroelectric perovskites have recently been studied
with increasing intensity due to their potential use in non‐volatile ferroelectric random …

The complex interplay of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom provides a
plethora of exotic phases and physical phenomena,,,,. In recent years, complex spin …

Ferroics, especially ferromagnets, can form complex topological spin structures such as
vortices and skyrmions, when subjected to particular electrical and mechanical boundary …

Ferroelectricity in finite-dimensional systems continues to arouse interest, motivated by
predictions of vortex polarization states and the utility of ferroelectric nanomaterials in …

Whilst often discussed as non-trivial phases of low-dimensional ferroelectrics, modulated
polar phases such as the dipolar maze and the nano-bubble state have been appraised as …

Macroscopic ferroelectric polarization switching, similar to other first-order phase transitions,
is controlled by nucleation centres. Despite 50 years of extensive theoretical and …

Twisted light carries a nonzero orbital angular momentum, that can be transferred from light
to electrons and particles ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Up to now, the interplay …

Ferroelectric crystals feature asymmetric or polar structures that are switchable under an
external electric field, holding promise for information storage. Nanoscale ferroelectrics …

Paradigmatic knotted solitons, Hopfions, that are characterized by topological Hopf invariant,
attract an intense attention in the diverse areas of physics ranging from high-energy physics …