Universal unconventional responses controlled by ferroaxial order
Abstract
Ferroaxial materials are an emerging class of ferroic materials that, in contrast to ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are fully robust against stray fields, making them ideally suited for data storage and other nonvolatile applications. However, detection of the ferroaxial state remains challenging, as ferroaxiality does not manifest directly through a measurable macroscopic electric polarization or magnetization, and probes are mostly limited to optical methods. Here, we theoretically establish that ferroaxial order universally generates unconventional components of responses to external stimuli, such as the spin Hall effect, magneto-Seebeck effect, or Faraday effect, across a broad range of linear and nonlinear transport, optical and equilibrium phenomena. These unconventional responses are always directly coupled to ferroaxial order and can distinguish ferroaxial domains, providing probes of ferroaxial order. This general connection also reveals a largely unexplored class of ferroaxial metals, in which unconventional transport provides a natural probe of ferroaxial order, as demonstrated by our first-principles calculations for representative materials. Our results reveal a fundamentally different way for ferroic order to manifest -- ferroaxiality primarily shows unconventional material responses rather than the directly measurable order parameters, broadening the possibilities of nonvolatile ferroic control and flexible device design.
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BibTeX
@misc{he2026universal,
title = {{Universal unconventional responses controlled by ferroaxial order}},
author = {Zhiren He and Guru Khalsa and Jagoda Slawinska},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.30706},
eprint = {2608.30706},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30706},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Universal unconventional responses controlled by ferroaxial order
AU - Zhiren He
AU - Guru Khalsa
AU - Jagoda Slawinska
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/31
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.30706
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30706
AB - Ferroaxial materials are an emerging class of ferroic materials that, in contrast to ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are fully robust against stray fields, making them ideally suited for data storage and other nonvolatile applications. However, detection of the ferroaxial state remains challenging, as ferroaxiality does not manifest directly through a measurable macroscopic electric polarization or magnetization, and probes are mostly limited to optical methods. Here, we theoretically establish that ferroaxial order universally generates unconventional components of responses to external stimuli, such as the spin Hall effect, magneto-Seebeck effect, or Faraday effect, across a broad range of linear and nonlinear transport, optical and equilibrium phenomena. These unconventional responses are always directly coupled to ferroaxial order and can distinguish ferroaxial domains, providing probes of ferroaxial order. This general connection also reveals a largely unexplored class of ferroaxial metals, in which unconventional transport provides a natural probe of ferroaxial order, as demonstrated by our first-principles calculations for representative materials. Our results reveal a fundamentally different way for ferroic order to manifest -- ferroaxiality primarily shows unconventional material responses rather than the directly measurable order parameters, broadening the possibilities of nonvolatile ferroic control and flexible device design.
ER -