Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Nonreciprocal responses from non-centrosymmetric quantum materials

  • Yoshinori Tokura,
  • Naoto Nagaosa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05759-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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A variety of directional electronic transport phenomena can occur in materials with broken inversion-symmetry. Here, Tokura and Nagaosa review the underlying mechanisms and emergent phenomena of nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric quantum materials.