Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Magnetoelectric phase transition driven by interfacial-engineered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

  • Xin Liu,
  • Wenjie Song,
  • Mei Wu,
  • Yuben Yang,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Peipei Lu,
  • Yinhua Tian,
  • Yuanwei Sun,
  • Jingdi Lu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Dayu Yan,
  • Youguo Shi,
  • Nian Xiang Sun,
  • Young Sun,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Ka Shen,
  • Guozhi Chai,
  • Supeng Kou,
  • Ce-Wen Nan,
  • Jinxing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25759-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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A controllable magnetoelectric phase based on symmetry engineering is challenge in natural bulk crystals. Here, via engineering of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, the authors design a magnetoelectric phase transition in oxide superlattices of correlated electron systems.