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ArticleScience advances2022

Discovery of electric devil's staircase in perovskite antiferroelectric.

Zhenqin Li, Zhengqian Fu, Henghui Cai, Tengfei Hu, Ziyi Yu, Yue Luo, Linlin Zhang, Heliang Yao, Xuefeng Chen, Shujun Zhang and 3 more

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Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors.

Zhenqin LiState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7754-7336
Zhengqian FuState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9402-9549
Henghui CaiUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1683-4926
Tengfei HuState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5271-4967
Ziyi YuState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9701-5967
Yue LuoUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8856-8690
Linlin ZhangState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0224-8440
Heliang YaoState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4101-4700
Xuefeng ChenThe Key Lab of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1051-2571
Shujun ZhangInstitute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2500, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6139-6887
Genshui WangState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5077-6574
Xianlin DongState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1374-6648
Fangfang XuState Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7754-7336

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The devil's staircase, describing step-like function for two competing frequencies, is well known over a wide range of dynamic systems including Huyghens' clocks, Josephson junction, and chemical reaction. In condensed matter physics, the devil's staircase has been observed in spatially modulated structures, such as magnetic ordering. It draws widespread attentions because it plays a crucial role in the fascinating phenomena including phase-locking behaviors, commensurate-incommensurate phase transition, and spin-valve effect. Here, we report the observation of polymorphic phase transitions consisting of several steps in PbZrO

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