• Global formation of topological defects in the multiferroic hexagonal manganites 

      Meier, Quintin Noel; Lilienblum, Martin; Griffin, Sinead M; Conder, K; Pomjakushina, Ekaterina; Yan, Zewu; Bourret, Edith; Meier, Dennis; Lichtenberg, Frank; Salje, Ekhard K. H.; Spaldin, Nicola A.; Fiebig, Manfred; Cano, Andrés (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The spontaneous transformations associated with symmetry-breaking phase transitions generate domain structures and defects that may be topological in nature. The formation of these defects can be described according to the ...