{"title":"Light-induced and tunable shift currents through structural phase evolution in ferroelectric semiconductors","authors":"Reddithota Vidyasagar,Eudes B. Araújo","doi":"10.1103/d563-g554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/d563-g554","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20082,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review B","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naëmi Leo,Jonathan S. White,Michel Kenzelmann,Takashi Honda,Tsuyoshi Kimura,Dennis Meier,Manfred Fiebig
{"title":"Magnetoelectric initialization of multiferroic\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Mn\u0000 2\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 GeO\u0000 4\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","authors":"Naëmi Leo,Jonathan S. White,Michel Kenzelmann,Takashi Honda,Tsuyoshi Kimura,Dennis Meier,Manfred Fiebig","doi":"10.1103/qcg2-3y34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/qcg2-3y34","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetoelectric multiferroics promise direct cross control between coexisting ferroelectric and ferromagnetic orders, which is of interest for applications in magnetism and spintronics. A particularly interesting type of cross control is found in spin-spiral multiferroic Mn 2 GeO 4 , in which a ferroelectric multidomain distribution can be globally inverted by a single magnetic field sweep. In this work we show that this repeatable response is not obtained immediately after entering the multiferroic phase via zero-field coolling. Instead, an initial metastable multidomain state forms in which polarization, magnetization, and antiferromagnetic order do not yet minimize the trilinear magnetoelectric coupling. Using optical second-harmonic generation for ferroelectric domain imaging, we demonstrate that a single field cycle deterministically drives the system from the initial metastable state into an equilibrium domain configuration that shows repeatable domain interconversion. This initialization behavior originates from a deterministic pathway from metastable to equilibrium domain patterns, in contrast to the more common—and less reliable—stochastic domain “training” procedures that require repeated field cycles. Understanding the initial domain evolution thus enables reliable cross control in magnetoelectric devices with highly interlinked order parameters.","PeriodicalId":20082,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review B","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149208548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}