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ArticleScience advances2025

General principle of ferroelectric topological domain formation.

Jing Wang, Rongzhen Gao, Shiyu Tang, Shouzhe Dong, Minchuan Liang, Jia Yang, Huayu Yang, Zhenyue Nie, Deshan Liang, Qimeng Wang and 5 more

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Jing WangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9099-7339
Rongzhen GaoAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4303-6594
Shiyu TangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6873-8800
Shouzhe DongAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0009-0003-4016-4181
Minchuan LiangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Jia YangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Huayu YangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Zhenyue NieAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Deshan LiangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1179-3902
Qimeng WangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Dingxin WangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
Wael Ben TaazayetAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1996-8770
Shujun ZhangInstitute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2500, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6139-6887
Houbing HuangAdvanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8006-3495
Ce-Wen NanState Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3261-4053

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Abstract

We propose a general principle for the formation of topological structures in ferroelectrics, demonstrating that the fundamental formation mechanism of ferroelectric vortex is the superposition of two orthogonal dipole waves, which has also been validated by the mathematical deduction, phase-field simulations, and angle-resolved piezoelectric force microscopy. Moreover, it is demonstrated that this principle can also be extended to a range of nontrivial topological structures, including Ising, Néel, and Bloch domain walls, merons, skyrmions, Hopf rings, Solomon rings, and others. These findings not only improve our understanding of the fundamental formation mechanism of existing topological structures but also enable the prediction of topological structures, such as Star of David rings, in ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials, liquid crystals, and Bose-Einstein condensate states (superconductors and superfluids).

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