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Electric field control of magnetism: multiferroics and magnetoelectrics

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This article is written on behalf of a large number of colleagues, collaborators, and researchers in the field of complex oxides as well as current and former students and postdocs who continue to enable and undertake cutting-edge research in the field of multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, and the pursuit of electric-field control of magnetism. What we present is something that is extremely exciting from both a fundamental science and applications perspective and has the potential to revolutionize our world. Needless to say, to realize this potential will require numerous new innovations, both in the fundamental science arena as well as translating these scientific discoveries into real applications. Thus, this article will attempt to bridge the gap between fundamental condensed-matter physics and the actual manifestations of the physical concepts into real-life applications. We hope this article will help spur more translational research within the broad materials physics community.

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Ramesh, R., Martin, L.W. Electric field control of magnetism: multiferroics and magnetoelectrics. Riv. Nuovo Cim. 44, 251–289 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40766-021-00019-6

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