Substitution- and strain-induced magnetic phase transition in iron carbide

Strain-induced isosymmetric phase transition in BiFeO3

We calculate the effect of epitaxial strain on the structure and properties of multiferroic bismuth ferrite, BiFeO3, using first-principles density-functional theory. We investigate epitaxial strain corresponding to an 001 -oriented substrate and find that, while small strain causes only quantitative changes in behavior from the bulk material, compressive strains of greater than 4% induce an is...

Phase transition induced by a magnetic field

The magnetic catalysis of discrete chiral symmetry breaking in the 2+1 dimensional Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model is analyzed. A particular attention is paid to a possible application of the effect in solid state physics. The fermion contribution to the thermal conductivity as a function of the dynamical mass (energy gap in the spectrum) is estimated and is shown to be suppressed when a non-zero orde...

Laser induced phase transition in iron thin films

Phase transition induced strain in ZnO under high pressure

Under high pressure, the phase transition mechanism and mechanical property of material are supposed to be largely associated with the transformation induced elastic strain. However, the experimental evidences for such strain are scanty. The elastic and plastic properties of ZnO, a leading material for applications in chemical sensor, catalyst, and optical thin coatings, were determined using i...

Strain-induced topological insulator phase transition in HgSe

Lars Winterfeld,1,2 Luis A. Agapito,1 Jin Li,1 Nicholas Kioussis,1,* Peter Blaha,3 and Yong P. Chen4 1Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8268, USA 2Institut für Physik, University of Technology Ilmenau, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany 3Institute for Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, A-1060 Vienna, Austria 4Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayet...