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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.147601
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- DARPA [HR0011-15-2-0038]
- ARO [W911NF-16-1-0227]
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Homotopy theory and first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian simulations are combined to investigate the stability of topological defects in proper ferroelectric crystals. We show that, despite a nearly trivial topology of the order parameter space, these materials can exhibit stable topological point defects in their tetragonal polar phase and stable topological line defects in their orthorhombic polar phase. The stability of such defects originates from a novel mechanism of topological protection related to finite-temperature fluctuations of local dipoles.
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