Landau theory of domain wall magnetoelectricity
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Maren Daraktchiev,1,2,* Gustau Catalan,1,3,† and James F. Scott1,4,‡ 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom 2Department of Health, 330 Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG, United Kingdom 3ICREA and CIN2, CSIC-ICN, Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Spain 4Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Received 21 February 2010; revised manuscript received 13 May 2010; published 30 June 2010
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