Ferroelectricity in a one-dimensional organic quantum magnet

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 169-172

  Kagawa, Fumitaka ^a   Horiuchi, Sachio ^b   Tokunaga, Masashi ^a   Fujioka, Jun ^a   Tokura, Yoshinori ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; FERROELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; POLARIZATION;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; TETRATHIAFULVALENES;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77950520559     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1503     Document Type: Article

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