Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39317816›Full record

ArticleNature materials2024

Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures.

Vladimir A Stoica, Tiannan Yang, Sujit Das, Yue Cao, Huaiyu Hugo Wang, Yuya Kubota, Cheng Dai, Hari Padma, Yusuke Sato, Anudeep Mangu and 24 more

Erratum issuedAbstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nature materials, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Periodic polar vortices in BaTiONature communications · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Hidden domain boundary dynamics toward crystalline perfection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  10. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Vladimir A Stoica *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. vxs30@psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2734-7819
Tiannan Yang *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Sujit Das *Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9823-0207
Yue CaoMaterials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3989-158X
Huaiyu Hugo WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1198
Yuya KubotaJapan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-098X
Cheng DaiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Hari PadmaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Yusuke SatoInstitute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
Anudeep ManguDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5596-8348
Quynh L NguyenLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Zhan ZhangAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-6134
Disha TalrejaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Marc E ZajacAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
Donald A WalkoAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
Anthony D DiChiaraAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.
Shigeki OwadaJapan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Japan.
Kohei MiyanishiRIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6477-3710
Kenji TamasakuJapan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Japan.
Takahiro SatoLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
James M GlowniaLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Vincent EspositoLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-133X
Silke NelsonLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Matthias C HoffmannLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3596-9853
Richard D SchallerCenter for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9696-8830
Aaron M LindenbergDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-7161
Lane W MartinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering & Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1889-2513
Ramamoorthy RameshDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering & Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0524-1332
Iwao MatsudaInstitute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-9303
Diling ZhuLinac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Long-Q ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3359-3781
Haidan WenAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. wen@anl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5427-175X
Venkatraman GopalanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. vxg8@psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6866-3677
John W FreelandAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. freeland@anl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-5308

Funding

DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences (BES) DE-AC02-76SF00515DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences (BES) DE-SC-0012375U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC-0012375
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability is crucial to understand these phenomena. Here we utilize single-shot optical pump-X-ray probe measurements to capture snapshots of the emergence of a persistent polar vortex supercrystal in a heterostructure that hosts a fine balance between built-in electrostatic and elastic frustrations by design. By perturbing this balance with photoinduced charges, an initially heterogeneous mixture of polar phase disorders within a few picoseconds, leading to a state composed of disordered ferroelectric and suppressed vortex orders. On the picosecond-nanosecond timescales, transient labyrinthine fluctuations develop, accompanied by the recovery of the vortex order. On longer timescales, these fluctuations are progressively quenched by dynamical strain modulations, which drive the collective emergence of a single vortex supercrystal phase. Our results, corroborated by dynamical phase-field modelling, reveal non-equilibrium pathways following the ultrafast excitation of designer systems to persistent metastability.

Identifiers

PMID39317816

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.