The symmetry of the whole experimental setups, including specific sample environments
and measurables, can be compared with that of specimens for observable physical …

The formation of topological defects after a symmetry-breaking phase transition is an
overarching phenomenon that encodes the underlying dynamics. The Kibble–Zurek …

The chemical order and disorder of solids have a decisive influence on the material
properties. There are numerous materials exhibiting chemical order/disorder of atoms with …

The spontaneous symmetry breakdown of matter is one of the most important concepts in
materials physics and leads to a phase transition into an ordered phase and domain …

Unlike what happens in conventional ferroics, the ferrorotational (FR) domain manipulation
and visualization in FR materials are nontrivial as they are invariant under both space …

An electric ferro-axial moment, which is characterized by a nonzero expectation value of a
time-reversal-even axial vector, exhibits distinct spatial-inversion and time-reversal …

The microscopic origin of chirality, possible electric-field induced static rotational lattice
deformation, and rotation-field induced electric polarization are investigated. By building up …

Hysteretic switching of domain states is a salient characteristic of all ferroic materials and the
foundation for their multifunctional applications. Ferro-rotational order is emerging as a type …

The ferroaxial order, which is characterized by a rotational structural distortion in a crystal,
has been recently proposed as one of ferroic orders. Though the domain formation is a …

We overview recent developments of electronic orderings and associated cross correlations
in condensed matter physics based on a complete set of multipole representations (electric …