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Sep 2025
Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3
When cooling towards a ferroelectric phase transition, collective atomic motions (phonons) slow down (soften) until a static atomic displacement pattern forms, giving rise to spontaneous polarization throughout the material1. However, in quantum paraelectrics such as strontium titanate (SrTiO3), long-range ferroelectri...
Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Nishkarsh Agarwal et al.
· Nature · 5 citations
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