DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011380107. Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic

Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic

10.1073/pnas.1011380107

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

The interaction among topological defects can induce novel phenomena such as disclination pairs in liquid crystals and superconducting vortex lattices. Nanoscale topological vortices with swirling ferroelectric, magnetic, and structural antiphase relationships were found in multiferroic h-YMnO 3 . Herein, we report the discovery of intriguing, but seemingly irregular configurations of a zoo of topological vortices and antivortices. These configurations can be neatly analyzed in terms of graph theory and reflect the nature of self-organized criticality in complexity phenomena. External stimuli such as chemistry-driven or electric poling can induce the condensation and eventual annihilation of topological vortex–antivortex pairs.

Bibliography

Chae, S. C., Horibe, Y., Jeong, D. Y., Rodan, S., Lee, N., & Cheong, S.-W. (2010). Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(50), 21366â21370.

Authors 6

S. C. Chae (first)
Y. Horibe (additional)
D. Y. Jeong (additional)
S. Rodan (additional)
N. Lee (additional)
S.-W. Cheong (additional)

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Created	14 years, 8 months ago (Nov. 30, 2010, 4:18 a.m.)
Deposited	3 years, 4 months ago (April 14, 2022, 6:45 a.m.)
Indexed	2 months, 3 weeks ago (May 27, 2025, 1:08 a.m.)
Issued	14 years, 8 months ago (Nov. 29, 2010)
Published	14 years, 8 months ago (Nov. 29, 2010)
Published Online	14 years, 8 months ago (Nov. 29, 2010)
Published Print	14 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 14, 2010)

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@article{Chae_2010, title={Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic}, volume={107}, ISSN={1091-6490}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1011380107}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.1011380107}, number={50}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, author={Chae, S. C. and Horibe, Y. and Jeong, D. Y. and Rodan, S. and Lee, N. and Cheong, S.-W.}, year={2010}, month=nov, pages={21366–21370} }

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