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most citedThermodynamics of nanodomain formation and breakdown in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach

90 citations · 105 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Flexo-Strain Engineering of Phonons and Ferrons in Thin Films of Van der Waals Ferrielectrics

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Yujie Zhu +6

The influence of the flexoelectric coupling on the fluctuations of electric polarization and elastic strains can lead to the principal changes of the dispersion law of soft optical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Polar-vortex-driven interfacial strain coupling in PbTiO3/SrRuO3 Heterostructures

S. A. Raza, V. A. Stoica, H. Zheng +7

Interfacial coupling in oxide heterostructures is a central problem in condensed-matter physics, as it typically emerges at the atomic scale through local interactions mediated by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Dynamical Phase-Field Model for the Optical Properties of Ferroelectrics

Aiden Ross, Anya Frazer, Venkatraman Gopalan +1

Ferroelectric materials are promising platforms for controllable photonic devices because of the strong coupling between their spontaneous polarization and optical properties. Yet,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Bilinear Flexo-Antiferrodistortive Coupling in Ferroelastics: Polar Twins, Antiphase Boundaries and Fingerprints of Alterelectricity

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, Akash Saha +1

Using the Landau-Ginsburg-Devonshire approach we show that the linear gradient-type coupling between the electric polarization vector and antiferrodistortive long-range order param…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Quantum Saturation of the Electro-Optic Effect

Aiden Ross, Sankalpa Hazra, Albert Suceava +4

Future quantum computing architectures require electro-optic materials that maintain a strong, stable performance at cryogenic temperatures. In conventional electro-optic materials…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Thermodynamics of Ferroelectric and Optical Properties in KNbO3

Aiden Ross, Venkatraman Gopalan, Long-Qing Chen

Potassium niobate (KNbO3) is a prototypical perovskite ferroelectric with large electro-optic and nonlinear optical responses, high optical damage thresholds and a rich sequence of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Sankalpa Hazra +9

Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters can drive Polarization Reversal in a Non-Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin +3

Heterogeneous nucleation from defects dominates the electric field required for polarization switching of ferroelectrics. Here, we consider the switching of a nominally non-switcha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strong coupling between coherent ferrons and cavity acoustic phonons

Yujie Zhu, Jiaxuan Wu, Anna N. Morozovska +7

Coherent ferrons, the quanta of polarization waves, can potentially be hybridized with many other quasiparticles for achieving novel control modalities in quantum communication, co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Proximity Ferroelectricity in Compositionally Graded Structures

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, Sergei V. Kalinin +2

Proximity ferroelectricity is a novel paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity in a non-ferroelectric polar material such as AlN or ZnO that are typically unswitchable with an extern…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Tip-Based Proximity Ferroelectric Switching and Piezoelectric Response in Wurtzite Multilayers

Eugene A. Eliseev, Anna N. Morozovska, Sergei V. Kalinin +2

Proximity ferroelectricity is a novel paradigm for inducing ferroelectricity, where a non-ferroelectric polar material, which is unswitchable with an external field below the diele…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Theory of terahertz pulse transmission through ferroelectric nanomembranes

Yujie Zhu, Aiden Ross, Xiangwei Guo +3

An analytical model is developed to predict the temporal evolution of the lattice polarization in ferroelectric nanomembranes upon the excitation by a terahertz (THz) electromagnet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 7 cited

Terahertz-field activation of polar skyrons

Huaiyu Wang, Vladimir Stoica, Cheng Dai +27

Unraveling collective modes arising from coupled degrees of freedom is crucial for understanding complex interactions in solids and developing new functionalities. Unique collectiv…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Flexocoupling-induced phonons and ferrons in van der Waals ferroelectrics

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene. A. Eliseev, Oleksiy V. Bereznikov +7

The contribution of flexoelectric coupling to the long-range order parameter fluctuations in ferroics can be critically important to the ferron dispersion and related polar, pyroel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Optical Control of Adaptive Nanoscale Domain Networks

Marc Zajac, Tao Zhou, Tiannan Yang +13

Adaptive networks can sense and adjust to dynamic environments to optimize their performance. Understanding their nanoscale responses to external stimuli is essential for applicati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Hidden domain boundary dynamics towards crystalline perfection

A. Mangu, V. A. Stoica, H. Zheng +19

A central paradigm of non-equilibrium physics concerns the dynamics of heterogeneity and disorder, impacting processes ranging from the behavior of glasses to the emergent function…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures

Vladimir A. Stoica, Tiannan Yang, Sujit Das +31

Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 90 cited

Thermodynamics of nanodomain formation and breakdown in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Svechnikov +2

Thermodynamics of tip-induced nanodomain formation in scanning probe microscopy of ferroelectric films and crystals is studied using the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenological…