Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO

Yang Zhang, Suk Hyun Sung, Nishkarsh Agarwal, Maya Gates, Cong Li, Pu Yu, Robert Hovden, Ismail El Baggari

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yang ZhangThe Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. yang.zhang@duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1684-6273

Suk Hyun SungThe Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Nishkarsh AgarwalDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7893-6149

Maya Gatesh-Bar Instruments, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6281-3932

Cong LiState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Pu YuState Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5513-7632

Robert HovdenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3403-8803

Ismail El BaggariThe Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. ismail.elbaggari@ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6554-9289

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Abstract

When cooling towards a ferroelectric phase transition, collective atomic motions (phonons) slow down (soften) until a static atomic displacement pattern forms, giving rise to spontaneous polarization throughout the material

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PMID42486982

DOI10.1038/s41586-026-10823-x

PMCPMC13441873

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