Scaling Behavior and Beyond Equilibrium in the Hexagonal Manganites
We show that the improper ferroelectric phase transition in the multiferroic hexagonal manganites displays appropriate symmetry-breaking characteristics for testing the Kibble-Zurek mechanism originally proposed to describe early-universe phase transitions. We present an analysis of the Kibble-Zurek...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041022 |