Topological defects as relics of emergent continuous symmetry and Higgs condensation of disorder in ferroelectrics

Universality of phase transition dynamics: Topological defects from symmetry breaking

(2014) Adolfo del Campo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A

Topological relics of symmetry breaking: winding numbers and scaling tilts from random vortex–antivortex pairs

(2013) W H Zurek   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Spontaneous creation of Kibble–Zurek solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate

(2013) Giacomo Lamporesi et al.   Nature Physics

Evolution of the Domain Topology in a Ferroelectric

(2013) S. C. Chae et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Topological defect formation and spontaneous symmetry breaking in ion Coulomb crystals

(2013) K. Pyka et al.   Nature Communications

Observation of the Kibble–Zurek scaling law for defect formation in ion crystals

(2013) S. Ulm et al.   Nature Communications

Direct Observation of the Proliferation of Ferroelectric Loop Domains and Vortex-Antivortex Pairs

(2012) S. C. Chae et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Scaling Behavior and Beyond Equilibrium in the Hexagonal Manganites

(2012) S. M. Griffin et al.   Physical Review X

Piezoresponse force microscopy of domains and walls in multiferroic HoMnO3

(2011) Edward B. Lochocki et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electrostatic topology of ferroelectric domains in YMnO3

(2010) Tobias Jungk et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves

(2010) Wonjoon Choi et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Evidence for Long-Range Correlations within Arrays of Spontaneously Created Magnetic Vortices in a Nb Thin-Film Superconductor

(2010) Daniel Golubchik et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic

(2010) S. C. Chae et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spontaneous fluxoid formation in superconducting loops

(2009) R. Monaco et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Spontaneous vortices in the formation of Bose–Einstein condensates

(2008) Chad N. Weiler et al.   NATURE