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Interlayer sliding in bilayer VBr2 electrically reverses both out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization and the signs of hybrid-parity nonrelativistic spin splitting.

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arxiv 2607.24337 v1 pith:3MKNLV3O submitted 2026-07-27 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics

Zhenzhou Guo , Jiangtao Yu , Shibo Fang , Jin Cao , Xiaodong Zhou , Yee Sin Ang , Wenhong Wang , Zhenxiang Cheng
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keywords sliding ferroelectricityhybrid-parity multiferroicsnonrelativistic spin splittingcoplanar magnetsbilayer VBr2spin currentspin space group
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This paper introduces hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics: layered magnets in which reversing ferroelectric polarization by sliding one layer over another also flips selected components of momentum-dependent spin splitting that have mixed even and odd parity. Symmetry analysis points to coplanar magnets as the natural hosts, because their spin-only group already forces the perpendicular spin component to be odd in momentum and the in-plane components to be even. First-principles calculations on bilayer VBr2 show that sliding between AB and BA stackings reverses a small out-of-plane polarization of about 0.12 pC/m together with both the odd-parity Sx and even-parity Sz spin-splitting components, along a path whose barrier is only about 6 meV per formula unit. Those switched signs appear directly in opposite spin-current responses, giving an electrical readout of the coupled ferroic state. The result widens sliding ferroelectricity from ordinary polarization control to nonvolatile electrical switching of unconventional spin textures useful for low-energy logic.

Core claim

Bilayer VBr2 realizes hybrid-parity sliding multiferroicity: interlayer sliding between AB and BA stackings simultaneously reverses the out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization (±0.12 pC/m) and the signs of both the odd-parity Sx and even-parity Sz nonrelativistic spin-splitting components, along a pathway with a barrier of roughly 6 meV per formula unit, with the reversed signs locked to the polarization and encoded in opposite spin-current responses σz_xx and χx_yxx.

What carries the argument

Hybrid-parity sliding multiferroicity, defined by spin-space-group symmetry: the coplanar spin-only group generated by {T C2σ⊥|1} enforces odd parity for the perpendicular spin component and even parity for the in-plane components, while a connecting operation such as {C2y|Mz} links opposite ferroelectric stackings and simultaneously reverses selected NSS components.

Load-bearing premise

The bilayer keeps the same coplanar 120-degree magnetic ground state as the monolayer under both stackings and along the sliding path; if that magnetic order changes, the hybrid-parity coupling collapses.

What would settle it

Measure or recalculate the magnetic ground state of AB- and BA-stacked bilayer VBr2 (for example by neutron scattering or total-energy comparison of collinear versus 120-degree order); if the moments are no longer coplanar in the yz plane, or if the measured spin currents σz_xx and χx_yxx do not reverse sign between AB and BA, the claimed multiferroic coupling is false.

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If this is right

  • Coplanar magnets become a systematic materials search space for electrically switchable hybrid-parity spin splitting via sliding ferroelectrics.
  • Even- and odd-parity NSS components can be read out separately through linear and quadratic spin currents that flow along perpendicular directions and accumulate differently polarized spins at sample edges.
  • Ultralow sliding barriers (~6 meV/f.u.) enable nonvolatile, low-energy electrical control of unconventional spin textures without net magnetization.
  • Magneto-optical Kerr or nonlocal spin-valve measurements can detect the polarization-locked spin accumulation as a device signature.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same SSG recipe should apply to other triangular-lattice dihalides and related coplanar van der Waals magnets once bilayer sliding ferroelectrics are stabilized.
  • If the 120-degree order proves fragile under gating or strain, the multiferroic window may be narrow, so magnetic-order stability maps would be the next practical screen.
  • Hybrid-parity switching offers a route to encode two independent spin-current channels in one ferroelectric bit, which device designs could exploit for multi-state logic.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces "hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics": bilayer systems in which interlayer sliding reverses an out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization while simultaneously reversing the signs of both odd-parity and even-parity components of the nonrelativistic spin splitting (NSS). A spin-space-group (SSG) analysis identifies coplanar magnets — whose spin-only group is generated by {T C2σ⊥|1} — as natural platforms, with the connecting operation Q = {U|Mz} or {TU|C2z} enforcing the coupled switching. Bilayer VBr2 with coplanar 120° order is proposed as the representative material: DFT calculations give Pz = ±0.12 pC/m for AB/BA stackings, a 6 meV/f.u. sliding barrier through the nonpolar AC intermediate, hybrid-parity NSS with switchable odd-parity Sx and even-parity Sz components, and opposite-sign spin-current responses σ^z_xx (dipole modulation) and χ^x_yxx (quadrupole modulation) as experimental signatures.

Significance. If the bilayer magnetic configuration holds up, this is a significant contribution: it extends sliding-multiferroic control beyond collinear altermagnets to hybrid-parity NSS, identifies a concrete synthesizable candidate (atomically thin VBr2 has been grown by CVD, ref 61), and delivers falsifiable predictions — opposite signs of σ^z_xx and χ^x_yxx in the two stackings, with spin accumulation polarized along perpendicular directions at different sample boundaries. The reported switching barrier (6 meV/f.u.) and polarization (±0.12 pC/m, comparable to experimentally verified sliding ferroelectrics) make the coupled-switching claim experimentally meaningful. The symmetry framework is also reusable for screening other coplanar-magnet bilayers.

major comments (3)
  1. [Results, 'Sliding ferroelectricity in bilayer VBr2' / Supplementary Note 1] The central claim — coupled reversal of Pz and the Sx/Sz NSS signs — rests entirely on the bilayer retaining the coplanar 120° order with moments in the yz plane. However, the bilayer configuration is not obtained by energy minimization: the text states the top layer 'can be obtained by applying the operation {C2y|Mz|t+τz} to the bottom layer', i.e., the SSG is imposed by construction. The reported ground-state comparison (vs FM, ferrimagnetic, collinear AFM; Supplementary Note 1) is described for the monolayer. The 6×6 sliding-energy scan in Fig. 2e varies only the rigid in-plane translation with the magnetic configuration held fixed. In triangular-lattice dihalides, interlayer exchange is competitive with intralayer exchange, and the relative orientation of the two 120° layers (or a layer-dependent rotation of the moment plane) was never scanned. A different interlayer magnetic arrange
  2. [Fig. 2f and Methods (CI-NEB)] The switching barrier of 6 meV/f.u. is one of the headline numbers (abstract, Fig. 2f). The Methods describe a standard CI-NEB calculation but do not state whether magnetic degrees of freedom were relaxed along the path or whether the coplanar configuration was carried along rigidly. If moments are free to reorient near the nonpolar AC intermediate (which restores Mz), a lower-energy non-coplanar or collinear configuration at the saddle could substantially change the barrier and could also undermine the claim that sliding preserves coplanarity (required for Eq. (1) to apply throughout the switching cycle). Please clarify the NEB protocol with respect to spin relaxation and, if spins were frozen, provide at least spot-checks of the magnetic energy landscape at the AC configuration to show the coplanar state remains locally stable there.
  3. [Methods (DFT+U), Results] All results use a single Hubbard value U = 1.0 eV on V d orbitals. For VX2 triangular-lattice halides the magnetic ground state and exchange parameters are known to be sensitive to U, and the cited neutron data (refs 59, 60) characterize bulk VBr2, whose interlayer magnetic stacking need not transfer to an isolated bilayer. Since the hybrid-parity coupling requires the 120° coplanar state to survive, the authors should demonstrate robustness of (i) the bilayer magnetic ground state, (ii) the sign and approximate magnitude of Pz, and (iii) the switching barrier over a reasonable U range (e.g., 0–3 eV), or provide a justification (e.g., constrained-DFT or linear-response determination) for U = 1.0 eV.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Results, 'Signatures of hybrid-parity NSS switching'] The transport numbers σ^z_xx ≈ 311 S/cm and χ^x_yxx ≈ 22 mS/V are quoted at an assumed relaxation time τ = 0.1 ps. Since σ ∝ τ and χ ∝ τ², please state the τ-scaling explicitly in the text or caption so readers can rescale, and comment on what τ is realistic for few-layer VBr2.
  2. [Fig. 3] The parity and sign structure of Sx and Sz are shown graphically in Fig. 3, but no quantitative NSS magnitudes (spin splitting in meV at representative k-points) are given. These would help readers compare with reported altermagnetic/p-wave splittings and assess detectability.
  3. [Results / Supplementary Fig. 7 discussion] The coplanar moment plane (yz) is itself set by magnetic anisotropy, i.e., by spin-orbit coupling, yet the NSS and response functions are computed without SOC. A brief magnetic-anisotropy calculation (energy cost of rotating moments out of the yz plane) would clarify the consistency of this treatment and the stability of the assumed moment plane.
  4. [Results, 'The concept of hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics'] Several SSG symbols are typographically garbled in the text, e.g., '{C−1 3x|C3z}' and '{XU|R|τ}' render with broken subscripts; Q = {C2σ∥,1|Mz} in Fig. 1a is defined only via the figure caption. Please define all operations explicitly in the main text and check the typesetting throughout.
  5. [Concluding paragraph] The proposed Kerr-effect and nonlocal detection schemes (refs 65–67) are mentioned only in passing. One or two sentences on the expected spatial pattern of spin accumulation (x-polarized vs z-polarized at perpendicular boundaries) and the feasibility of distinguishing the two stacking states experimentally would strengthen the 'signatures' section.
  6. [Supplementary references in main text] Supplementary Notes 1 and 2 and Supplementary Figs. 3–7 carry several load-bearing checks (ground-state comparison, response-tensor symmetry analysis, SOC benchmark). Since the SI is where the evidence for the magnetic ground state resides, the main text should at minimum summarize the configurations compared and the energy differences found.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: symmetry constraints plus independent DFT evaluations; sign reversals are consistency checks under stated SSG assumptions, not tautologies or fitted re-predictions.

full rationale

The paper’s chain is (i) SSG parity rules for coplanar magnets (Eq. 1 and the generators {T C2σ⊥|1}, {C2y|Mz}), (ii) construction of bilayer VBr2 stackings and a CI-NEB sliding path, (iii) direct DFT evaluation of Pz, Sp(k), NSp, and the response tensors σz_xx, χx_yxx. Magnitudes (Pz ≈ ±0.12 pC/m, barrier ≈ 6 meV/f.u., σz_xx ∼ 311 S/cm, χx_yxx ∼ 22 mS/V) are parameter-dependent first-principles outputs, not identities forced by normalization or by fitting to the same observables. That AB and BA are related by Q = {C2y|Mz} and therefore carry opposite Pz and opposite switchable NSS/spin-current signs is a symmetry consequence the authors state explicitly; recomputing the signs in DFT is a consistency check that the Wannier/DFT model respects Q, not a circular ‘prediction’ of an input. Spin-current selection rules (jD probes even-parity NSS, jQ odd-parity) follow from the parity of fD vs fQ (Eq. 2) under ±k-connecting symmetries—standard response theory, not a fit. No uniqueness theorem is imported from overlapping-author prior work as a load-bearing external fact; self-citations in the reference list are contextual. Concerns that the bilayer 120° coplanar order was imposed by the monolayer construction rather than fully re-minimized are correctness/assumption risks, not circular reductions of outputs to inputs. Derivation is self-contained against its stated premises.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 5 axioms · 1 invented entities

The claim rests on standard spin-space-group parity constraints, the experimental/theoretical premise that VBr2 hosts coplanar 120° order, and routine DFT+U+D3 total-energy and Wannier transport methodology. One explicit free parameter is U_eff on V d states. The named class ‘hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics’ is a conceptual packaging of symmetry-allowed coupling, not a new microscopic force or particle. No collider-scale new entities are introduced.

free parameters (2)
  • Hubbard U_eff on V d orbitals = 1.0 eV
    Dudarev U=1.0 eV is set by hand in Methods; magnetic energetics, gap position, and quantitative NSS/conductivity magnitudes can shift with U. No main-text scan or first-principles U determination is given.
  • Transport relaxation time τ = 0.1 ps
    Used to quote absolute scales σ^z_xx ~ 311 S/cm and χ^x_yxx ~ 22 mS/V near CBM; chosen as 0.1 ps for presentation. Sign reversal between stackings does not depend on τ, but reported magnitudes do.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Spin-space group operations constrain parity of spin expectation: coplanar spin-only group generated by {T C2σ⊥|1} enforces odd S_σ⊥(k) and even S_σ∥(k).
    Invoked in ‘The concept of hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics’ as Eq. (1); standard in the SSG/unconventional-magnetism literature the paper cites.
  • domain assumption Bulk/monolayer VBr2 hosts compensated coplanar 120° magnetic order on the triangular V lattice, preserved in the bilayer under sliding.
    Taken from neutron work and prior theory (refs 57–60) and Supplementary Note 1; load-bearing for hybrid parity and Q-coupled switching.
  • domain assumption PBE+U+D3 DFT total energies and Berry/Wannier-based spin expectations adequately rank stackings and capture nonrelativistic spin textures for this system.
    Methods section; standard condensed-matter modeling assumption, not proved within the paper.
  • standard math Dipole (odd in k) and quadrupole (even in k) occupation modulations imply linear spin current probes even-parity NSS and quadratic spin current probes odd-parity NSS when ±k are symmetry-related.
    Stated around Eq. (2) and response definitions following Hamamoto et al.; parity bookkeeping under the paper’s SSG.
  • ad hoc to paper AB and BA bilayers are related by {C2y|Mz}, forcing opposite Pz and opposite switchable NSS components while preserving coplanar order.
    Construction of the bilayer from {C2y|Mz|t+τz} and the sliding path in Fig. 2; specific to their stacking choice for VBr2.
invented entities (1)
  • hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics (as a materials class) no independent evidence
    purpose: Name and organize systems where sliding FE polarization is symmetry-locked to switchable mixed even/odd NSS components.
    Conceptual class defined by SSG requirements rather than a new particle or interaction; independent handle would be experimental observation of coupled P and hybrid-parity NSS switching in a coplanar sliding bilayer (e.g. VBr2).

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Sliding ferroelectrics provide a nonvolatile platform for the electrical control of unconventional magnetism through reversible interlayer sliding. However, the coupling between sliding ferroelectricity and hybrid-parity nonrelativistic spin splitting (NSS) remains largely unexplored. Here, we introduce a class of hybrid-parity sliding multiferroics in which the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization is coupled to certain NSS components through interlayer sliding, allowing these components to be reversibly switched in an electrical way. Symmetry analysis identifies coplanar magnets as natural platforms for realizing this form of sliding multiferroicity. First-principles calculations establish bilayer VBr$_2$ as a representative example, demonstrating the coupled reversal of the out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization ($\pm$0.12 pC/m) and the signs of both even- and odd-parity NSS components via an interlayer-sliding pathway with an ultralow barrier of 6 meV/f.u. The signs of these NSS components are locked to the sliding-switchable ferroelectric polarization and encoded in the spin-current responses, providing a signature of the coupled ferroic switching. Our findings expand the scope of sliding multiferroics and the functionality of sliding ferroelectrics for low-energy, nonvolatile logic devices.

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