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Scientific publications

Here is a list of papers I have published in scientific journals. For a complete and always up-to-date list you can also check here and here.

Peer-reviewed journals

  1. A. Urru, A. Filippetti, J. Iñiguez-González, and V. Fiorentini, Trilinear coupling and toroidicity in multiferroics, Phys. Rev. B 112, 104422 (2025) [reprint here]
  2. A. Urru, D. Seleznev, Y. Teng, S. Y. Park, S. E. Reyes-Lillo, and K. M. Rabe, G-type antiferromagnetic BiFeO3 is a multiferroic g-wave altermagnet, Phys. Rev. B 112, 104411 (2025) [reprint here]
  3. A. Urru, I. Souza, O. Pozo Ocaña, S. S. Tsirkin, and D. Vanderbilt, Optical spatial dispersion via Wannier interpolation, Phys. Rev. B 112, 045201 (2025) [reprint here]
  4. S. F. Weber, A. Urru, and N. A. Spaldin, Local magnetoelectric effects as predictors of surface magnetic order, Phys. Rev. X 15, 021094 (2025) [reprint here]
  5. S. Bhowal, A. Urru, S. F. Weber, and N. A. Spaldin, Emergent surface multiferroicity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 146703 (2025) [reprint here]
  6. J.-R. Soh, M. E. Merkel, L. Pourovskii, I. Živković, O. Malanyuk, J. Pásztorová, S. Francoual, D. Hirai, A. Urru, D. Told, D. Fiore-Mosca, O. Yazyev, N. A. Spaldin, C. Ederer, and H. M. Rønnow, Spectroscopic signatures and origin of hidden order in Ba2MgReO6, Nat. Commun. 15, 10383 (2024) [reprint here]
  7. M. Braun, B. Guster, A. Urru, H. Kabbour, and E. Bousquet, Large dynamical magnetic effective charges and antimagnetoelectricity from spin and orbital origin in multiferroic BiCoO3, Phys. Rev. B 110, 144442 (2024) [reprint here]
  8. S. F. Weber, A. Urru, S. Bhowal, C. Ederer, and N. A. Spaldin, Surface magnetization in antiferromagnets: Classification, example materials, and relation to magnetoelectric responses, Phys. Rev. X 14 (2), 021033 (2024) [reprint here]
  9. E. Bousquet, E. Lelièvre-Berna, N. Qureshi, J.-R. Soh, N. A. Spaldin, A. Urru, X. H. Verbeek, and S. F. Weber, On the sign of the linear magnetoelectric coefficient in Cr2O3, JPCM 36, 155701 (2024) [reprint here]
  10. X. H. Verbeek, A. Urru, and N. A. Spaldin, Hidden orders and (anti-) Magnetoelectric Effects in Cr2O3 and α-Fe2O3, Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042018 (2023) [reprint here]
  11. A. Urru, J.-R. Soh, N. Qureshi, A. Stunault, B. Rössli, H. M. Rønnow, and N. A. Spaldin, Neutron scattering from local magnetoelectric multipoles: A combined theoretical, computational, and experimental perspective, Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033147 (2023) [reprint here]
  12. A. Urru and N. A. Spaldin, Magnetic octupole tensor decomposition and second-order magnetoelectric effect, Annals of Physics 447, 168964 (2022) [reprint here]
  13. A. Urru, F. Ricci, A. Filippetti, J. Iñiguez, and V. Fiorentini, A three-order-parameter bistable magnetoelectric multiferroic metal, Nat. Commun. 11, 4922 (2020) [reprint here]
  14. A. Urru and A. Dal Corso, Lattice dynamics effects on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy: Application to MnBi, Phys. Rev. B 102, 115126 (2020) [reprint here]
  15. P. Giannozzi, O. Baseggio, P. Bonfà, D. Brunato, R. Car, I. Carnimeo, C. Cavazzoni, S. De Gironcoli, P. Delugas, F. Ferrari Ruffino, A. Ferretti, N. Marzari, I. Timrov, A. Urru, and S. Baroni, Quantum ESPRESSO toward the exascale, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 154105 (2020) [reprint here]
  16. F. Belviso, V. E. P. Claerbout, A. Comas-Vives, N. S. Dalal, F.-R. Fan, A. Filippetti, V. Fiorentini, L. Foppa, C. Franchini, B. Geisler, L. M. Ghiringhelli, A. Gross, S. Hu, J. Iñiguez, S. K. Kauwe, J. L. Musfeldt, P. Nicolini, R. Pentcheva, T. Polcar, W. Ren, F. Ricci, F. Ricci, H. S. Sen, J. M. Skelton, T. D. Sparks, A. Stroppa, A. Urru, M. Vandichel, P. Vavassori, H. Wu, K. Yang, H. J. Zhao, D. Puggioni, R. Cortese, and A. Cammarata, Viewpoint: Atomic-scale design protocols toward energy, electronic, catalysis, and sensing applications, Inorg. Chem. 58, 14939-14980 (2019) [reprint here]
  17. A. Urru and A. Dal Corso, Spin-polarized electronic surface states of Re (0001): An ab-initio investigation, Surf. Sci. 686, 22-29 (2019) [reprint here]
  18. A. Urru and A. Dal Corso, Density functional perturbation theory for lattice dynamics with fully relativistic ultrasoft pseudopotentials: The magnetic case, Phys. Rev. B 100, 045115 (2019) [reprint here]
  19. A. Urru and A. Dal Corso, Clean Os (0001) electronic surface states: A first-principle fully relativistic investigation, Surf. Sci. 671, 17-26 (2018) [reprint here]

Non-peer-reviewed journals

  1. A. Urru, G. Cocco, and V. Fiorentini, Tunability of the Berry phase in gapped graphene, arXiv:1511.01341 [reprint here]

PhD Thesis

Lattice dynamics with Fully Relativistic Pseudopotentials for magnetic systems, with selected applications. Institute: International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). Year of publication: 2020. Advisor: Prof. A. Dal Corso. [reprint here]

Bachelor and Master Theses

Available upon reasonable request. Please note that these documents are written in Italian.