This book provides a comprehensive introduction to ferroics and frustrated materials. Ferroics
comprise a range of materials classes with functionalities such as magnetism polarization and
orbital degrees of freedom and strain. Frustration due to geometrical constraints and
disorder due to chemical and or structural inhomogeneities can lead to glassy behavior which
has either been directly observed or inferred in a range of materials classes from model
systems such as artificial spin ice shape memory alloys and ferroelectrics to electronically
functional materials such as manganites. Interesting and unusual properties are found to be
associated with these glasses and have potential for novel applications. Just as in
prototypical spin glass and structural glasses the elements of frustration and disorder lead
to non-ergodocity history dependence frequency dependent relaxation behavior and the
presence of inhomogeneous nano clusters or domains. In addition there are new states of matter
such as spin ice however it is still an open question as to whether these systems belong to
the same family or universality class. The purpose of this work is to collect in a single
volume the range of materials systems with differing functionalities that show many of the
common characteristics of geometrical frustration where interacting degrees of freedom do not
fit in a lattice or medium and glassy behavior is accompanied by additional presence of
disorder. The chapters are written by experts in their fields and span experiment and theory
as well as simulations. Frustrated Materials and Ferroic Glasses will be of interest to a wide
range of readers in condensed matter physics and materials science.
